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what is it?
The Piaggio P.149 is a 1950s Italian utility and liaison aircraft designed and built by Piaggio.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · retractable tricycle gear · 11.1 m wingspan
base stats
Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).
fun facts
- First flew 73 years ago, in 1953.
- Top speed is 2.3× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 11.1 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Range of 1,090 km: 6× Amsterdam to Brussels.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1953-06-19
- number built
- 272
- role
- utility liaison or training monoplane
- origin
- 🇮🇹 Italy
- makers
- Piaggio Aerospace, Focke-Wulf
- engines
- 1× Lycoming GO-480 B1A6 / GO-480
- crew
- 2
- passengers
- 3
- length
- 8.8 m
- wingspan
- 11.1 m
- height
- 2.9 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,680 kg
- top speed
- 304 km/h
- cruise speed
- 266 km/h
- range
- 1,090 km
- ceiling
- 6,050 m
- landing gear
- retractable tricycle gear
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q689357, Wikipedia: Piaggio P.149 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.