PiaggioPiaggio Aerospace, formerly Piaggio Aero Industries S.p.A., is a multinational aerospace manufacturing company headquartered in Genoa, Italy. Its origins date back to the former Rinaldo Piaggio S.p.A. company, founded in Genoa in 1884 and originally outfitting ocean liners and manufacturing rolling stock for the developing railway infrastructure at the turn of the century. In the 1920s Piaggio Aero brought on Giovanni Pegna and Giuseppe Gabrielli, two aeronautical engineers, to help develop Piaggio's aeronautic line. Together they created modern technical solutions for aviation. Starting in the 1930s the Italian aeronautical engineer Corradino D'Ascanio was working on the design and construction of helicopters for Piaggio. Piaggio P.149The Piaggio P.149 is a 1950s Italian utility and liaison aircraft designed and built by Piaggio. It 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. Piaggio P.149D, registration D-EEGD, built ????, serial number 315
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