{"id":15764,"date":"2026-09-23T22:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T03:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=15764"},"modified":"2026-09-23T22:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T03:56:13","slug":"piaggio-aerospace-celebrates-40-years-of-the-p180","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=15764","title":{"rendered":"Piaggio Aerospace celebrates 40 years of the P180"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Story and image from Piaggio Aerospace<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Villanova d&#8217;Albenga, Italy, September 23, 2026 &#8211;<\/strong> Forty years after the P.180 first took flight on September 23, 1986, Piaggio Aerospace celebrated four decades of the aircraft with a commemorative event held at its Villanova d\u2019Albenga campus in Liguria. The event was attended by the Ambassador of T\u00fcrkiye to Italy Elif \u00c7omo\u011flu \u00dclgen, representatives of the Italian Government and institutions, senior military representatives, regional and local authorities, as well as partners, customers, and members of the media.<\/p>\n<p>Since its first flight, the P.180 has become an enduring symbol of aerospace innovation. Over four decades, it has evolved continuously to incorporate new technologies and support a diverse range of civil, government, and special-mission applications. Marking the P.180\u2019s 40th anniversary alongside the partners, customers, and others who have been part of that journey was a fitting way to celebrate both its history and its continuing evolution.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration featured speeches from Piaggio Aerospace\u2019s CEO and Chairman, who reflected on the P.180\u2019s four-decade journey while looking ahead to the aircraft\u2019s continued evolution and the future of Piaggio Aerospace. Numerous guests arrived in P.180s, while several were on display throughout the event, including Piaggio\u2019s own P.180 experimental aircraft, the second P.180 ever built. The event also recognized the partners, operators, and many others who have been part of the P.180\u2019s journey over the past 40 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click the link to read the full story! -&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.piaggioaerospace.it\/en\/news\/piaggio-aerospace-celebrates-40-years-of-the-p180-with-eyes-firmly-on-the-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">40 years of Piaggio Aerospace<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Inside The $8 Million Piaggio P180 Avanti Evo: Turboprop Smarter Than a Jet\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_KwGHrm98Jw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story and image from Piaggio Aerospace Villanova d&#8217;Albenga, Italy, September 23, 2026 &#8211; Forty years after the P.180 first took flight on September 23, 1986, Piaggio Aerospace celebrated four decades of the aircraft with a commemorative event held at its Villanova d\u2019Albenga campus in Liguria. The event was attended by the Ambassador of T\u00fcrkiye to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4510,4813,5637,7929,5676,13831],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerospace-news","category-airplane-news","category-business-news","category-european-news","category-international-news","category-manufacturing-assembly-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15767,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15764\/revisions\/15767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}