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Piaggio P.149
Role
Utility liaison or training monoplaneType of aircraft
Manufacturer
Piaggio Aero
Focke-Wulf
First flight
19 June 1953
Primary users
German Air Force Swissair Flying School
Number built
88 (Piaggio) 190 (Focke-Wulf)
Developed from
Piaggio P.148
German Air Force Focke-Wulf built FWP.149D at
Hanover Airport in 1966
Piaggio P.149E of the Swissair Flying School at Bern (Belp) airfield in 1973
Focke-Wulf FWP. 149D in Canadian civil service
P.149D
The Piaggio P.149 is a 1950s
Italian
utility and
liaison aircraft designed and built by
Piaggio . The aircraft was built under licence by
Focke-Wulf in
West Germany as the FWP.149D .
Development
The P.149 was developed as a four-seat touring variant of the earlier
P.148 . The P.149 is an all-metal, low-wing
cantilever
monoplane with a retractable
tricycle landing gear with room for four or five occupants.
[1] The
prototype first flew on 19 June 1953.
[2]
Only a few were sold, until the
German Air Force selected the aircraft for a
training and utility role. Piaggio delivered 76 aircraft out of a total of 88 built in Italy to Germany, while another 190 were built in Germany by
Focke-Wulf .
[2]
[3]
Operational history
The aircraft was operated by the
German Air Force between 1957 and 1990.
Swissair 's Flying School based at Bern (Belp) airfield used a small fleet of the type to provide primary instruction to trainee pilots.
[3]
Operators
Germany
Israel
Italy
Nigeria
Switzerland
Tanzania
Uganda
Ugandan Air Force
[10]
Specifications (P.149D)
Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1958-59
[11]
General characteristics
Performance
Maximum speed: 304 km/h (189 mph, 164 kn) at sea level
285 km/h (177 mph; 154 kn) at 2,000 m (6,600 ft)
Cruise speed: 266 km/h (165 mph, 144 kn) at 2,300 m (7,500 ft) and 67% METO power
Stall speed: 92 km/h (57 mph, 50 kn) at sea level with flaps
Range: 1,090 km (680 mi, 590 nmi) with 30 minutes reserve
Service ceiling: 6,050 m (19,850 ft)
Rate of climb: 5 m/s (980 ft/min)
Wing loading: 89.3 kg/m2 (18.3 lb/sq ft)
Power/mass : 0.120 kW/kg (0.073 hp/lb)
Take-off distance to 15 m (50 ft): 405 m (1,330 ft) in nil wind
Landing distance from 15 m (50 ft): 315 m (1,030 ft) in nil wind
See also
Related development
Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era
Citations
^ Stevens 1958, p. 73
^
a
b Simpson 1995, p. 279
^
a
b
c Gandet 2001, pp. 42–43.
^ Wheeler 1980, p. 1339.
^
Piaggio P-149D
^
"Piaggio P.149D" . Israeli Airforce Website . Retrieved 27 July 2016 .
^
"Italian Air Force" . aeroflight. Retrieved 31 May 2019 .
^ Jowett, Philip (2016). Modern African Wars (5): The Nigerian-Biafran War 1967-70 . Oxford:
Osprey Publishing Press. p. 17.
ISBN
978-1472816092 .
^ Donald 1997, p. 735.
^ Wheeler 1980, p. 1374.
^ Bridgman, Leonard, ed. (1958). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1958-59 . London: Jane's All the World's Aircraft Publishing Co. Ltd. pp. 198–199.
^ Lednicer, David.
"The Incomplete Guide to Airfoil Usage" . m-selig.ae.illinois.edu . Retrieved 16 April 2019 .
References
Donald, David. The Encyclopedia of World Aircraft . Leicester, UK: Blitz Editions, 1997.
ISBN
1-85605-375-X .
Gandet, Erich. "'Wulf' in Sheep's Clothing: Farewell to Swissair's P.149s".
Air Enthusiast . No. 92. March/April 2001. pp. 42–43.
ISSN
0143-5450 .
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985), 1985, Orbis Publishing, Page 2714.
Simpson, R. W. Airlife' s General Aviation . Shrewsbury, UK: Airlife Publishing Ltd., Second edition, 1995.
ISBN
1-85310-577-5 .
Stevens, James Hay.
"Fully Aerobatic Four-Seater" .
Flight , 18 July 1958, p. 73.
Wheeler, Barry C.
"World's Air Forces 1980" .
Flight International , 4 October 1980. pp. 1323–1378.
External links
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