Piaggio P.149



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. The prototype first flew on 19 June 1953.

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.

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.

Operators

 * German Air Force
 * Marineflieger
 * Israeli Air Force
 * Italian Air Force operated two Piaggio P.149Ds from 1953 until 1955
 * Nigerian Air Force operated 12 Piaggo P.149D in 1967
 * Swissair Flying School
 * Tanzanian Air Force
 * Ugandan Air Force
 * Nigerian Air Force operated 12 Piaggo P.149D in 1967
 * Swissair Flying School
 * Tanzanian Air Force
 * Ugandan Air Force
 * Tanzanian Air Force
 * Ugandan Air Force
 * Ugandan Air Force