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The Partenavia P.86 Mosquito was a two-seat civil trainer aircraft first flown in Italy on 27 April 1986.
[Taylor 1988, p. 160.] It was a high-wing monoplane of pod-and-boom construction with tricycle undercarriage and a twin tail, that accommodated the student and instructor side-by-side.
In
1988
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, Partenavia created the
Aviolight company as a joint venture with two other partners in order to produce the aircraft, with an initial series of 100 aircraft to be powered by a 56 kW (75 hp)
Limbach L2000
The Limbach L2000 is a series of German piston aero-engines designed and built by Limbach Flugmotoren. They are four-cylinder, four-stroke, air-cooled horizontally opposed, piston engines with a power output of .
Variants
;L2000 DA
:Certified ...
, with modifications to allow
certification
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.
Nothing came of it, and the prototype was the only example produced. Partenavia itself was declared bankrupt the same year.
Specifications
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External links
luftfahrt-archiv.de
1980s Italian civil trainer aircraft
Mosquito
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High-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1986
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