Eric!!! Aircraft ID required please............

[bleesh]

One maybe for Eric, but anyone can dive in if they wish.

At around 20:30 this evening, I saw an "odd" aircraft on the loop round towards Farnborough - I live in Aldershot.

Any ideas based on the following description?

Narrow pencil shaped fuselage.
Stubby square ended, non swept wings "quite far back" - I'd say in the last 2/5ths of the fuselage.
2 props, at the midpoint on each of the wings.
Very short stubby, square ended, non swept canards right on the nose.
High tailplane with horizontal control surfaces at the top of the fin.

I do see quite a lot of the traffic arriving/departing Farnborough, but have never seen one of these before.

And also is there a web site that will help me to identify an aircraft by answering questions about the look of the aircraft???
I seem to think I've seen one before but can't find it now....

Cheers,

Steve

[magpie215]

Piaggio Avanti

[bleesh]

Cheers magpie - I just found that as well - Piaggio P-180 Avanti.
Google search for 2 turboprops square wings front canards high tailplane and the second hit pointed me at that aircraft.

I have to admit, I'd "just assumed" that the were pull props and hadn't noticed that they were push!!

Fairly sure that was it though.

In fact I should have thought of this first....
http://farnborough.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=a...

PH-DLN is the reg, although the times appear out, although it may have been out and back in again, I suppose.

Cheers!!!

[BigS]

I remember seeing one of those come into Filton when I worked there, made a noise not unlike Piaggio's more common offerings if I remember rightly

[bleesh]

:-D @ BigS - that's what made me look up - I was expecting pizza to fall from the sky!!!

[AshVX220]

That is a very cool looking plane though isn't it?

[W124Bob]

Italian registered Piaggio Avanti P180 landed at 13.20 (Weds)at Manchester stealth grey paint no owner ID reg I-FXRA. A few more knowledgeable spotters knew it was coming in around lunch time.Also the viewing area now has a Nimrod XV231.
http://jetphotos.net/showphotos.php?regsearch=I-FX...

Edited by W124Bob on Wednesday 2nd June 15:10

[Mr Dave]

I think I saw the same one last week flying from sort of Belfast direction at about 6k feet heading southeast over Newtownards.

You dont see many of them about but what was it doing in Northern Ireland?

[Eric Mc]

It's an executive aircraft so i am sure executives have the odd reason to visit NI now and then.

[S3_Graham]

its gone now, was parked opposite the office window. White with orange stripes i believe!

[speedtwelve]

I remember seeing one of those go overhead at warp 9 inbound to Edinburgh VFR once. Looked and sounded pretty close to max chat, despite being at 2000' (this was years ago, before the 250kts max below FL100 rule came in). Sounded like 2x Tucanos in formation!