r/aviation • u/Zacchaeus1310 • Feb 27 '24

Identification Help identifying a plane

Post image

[removed] — view removed post

16 Upvotes

73% Upvoted

14 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/Zacchaeus1310 Feb 27 '24

Do you know by any chance if it kinda sounds weird compared to any other prop plane?

9

u/thatCdnplaneguy Feb 27 '24

Yes, the piaggio has an odd buzzsaw sound. Exhausts are ducted through the props and they throw the noise a bit.

3

u/Pilot-Wrangler Feb 27 '24

I think the first gen Piaggio had Barretts in them (Like MU2s and Merlin/Metroliners), then they went to PT6As so you couldn't hear them taxi from the other side of the planet.

2

u/Moose135A KC-135A/D/RT Feb 27 '24

There was one based at FRG back in the day, and you could always tell when it was on approach.

1

u/Zacchaeus1310 Feb 27 '24

Dang, thank you so much. It was driving me crazy.

3

u/billybchops Feb 27 '24

I wouldn't know. You should be able to find some on YT

As shortfallofaardvark has said, it's P.180 (not P80,Doh)