Pilot Report: Piaggio Avanti Evo

Source: Farnborough Air Show AIN/ Richard Ward – July 18, 2018

The P.180 Avanti Evo has a “wow” factor that is not present with many other twin turboprops of a similar
size. Yes, it does have three lifting surfaces, a T-tail and two pusher propellers but it’s how they are put
together that is the important thing. The forward wing (not to be called a canard, as it has no moving flight
controls other than forward flaps) is positioned on the underside of a gracefully sweeping nose and is
home to two pitot tubes underneath and, unusually in Western types, has a significant anhedral. The
windshield is deep and sharply raked back, which along with the ventral delta fins, perhaps alludes to the
shared Learjet origin from the 1980s. The upper fuselage curves to a peak height just in front of and above
the main wing leading edge and then slopes downwards to join the lower fuselage upward curve at a point
below the trailing edge of the T-tail that stands with its sharply swept back horizontal tailplane some 13.06
feet above the ramp.

Read:   Pilot Report EVO