Three New Avantis Delivered

[studegary]

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The plan to relaunch Italy’s Piaggio Aero Industries as a civil and defense aircraft manufacturer is gaining momentum some 20 months after moving production from an aging plant in Genoa to a $150 million, clean-sheet design factory in Villanova d’Albenga, about 56 miles southwest. This past September the firm delivered the first Avanti EVO twin turboprop manufactured there, and since then has delivered two more.

I lifted this from a post on the SDC Forum (and that poster had lifted it from somewhere else). 

[lschuc]

Wonder if they take a trade for both an R1 and R2 Studebaker?

[silverstude]

 

Occasionally, they fly over my house on the way to Dulles.  Unique engine sound, you can tell it's coming.  Always look great.