P.180 Avanti Vietnam War Su-27 entered production in 1982

Su-27 entered production in 1982 and is in service with Russia

and it often was used at lower altitudes for such missions as ground strafing

it had a reputation of being a difficult plane to fly

Designed as a replacement for the T-6 trainer

Douglas A-26 Invader airplane model

P.180 Avanti Vietnam War Su-27 entered production in 1982Piaggio P180 Avanti airplane model. Piaggio flew the first of two P. 180 prototypes on September 23 1986, the second flew in May 1987. Italian certification was granted in March 1990, the first production Avanti flew that May and the first customer delivery took place in September 1990. The unorthodox Avanti remains unique for a corporate aircraft in that it features three flying surfaces the canard foreplane, wing and tail. This arrangement not only