Italair Pegaso

{{Infobox aircraft | name = F.20 Pegaso, F.20TP Condor | logo = | logo_size = | image = Italair Pegaso I-GEAV LEB 2.6.73R edited-2.jpg | alt = | caption = The prototype Pegaso exhibited at the 1973 Paris Air Show | long_caption = | other_names = | aircraft_type = Business aircraft | aim = | outcome = | related = | national_origin = Italy | manufacturer = Italair, General Avia | design_group = | designer = Stelio Frati | builder = | issuer = | status = | owners = | primary_user = | more_users = | service = | major_applications = | proposals = | prototypes = | number_built = 3 | construction_number = | civil_registration = | military_serial = | radio_code = | requirement = | aircraft_carried = | flights = | total_hours = | total_distance = | construction_date = | introduction = | retired = | first_flight = 21 October 1971 | initiated = | in_service = | last_flight = | expected = | developed_from = | variants = | developed_into = | preservation = | fate = | predecessors = | successors = | concluded = }}

The '''Italair F.20 Pegaso''' was a twin-engine utility aircraft designed by Stelio Frati and built in Italy in 1971.

==Design and development== It had the sleek lines typical of Frati's designs and was a conventional low-wing cantilever monoplane with retractable tricycle undercarriage. Construction throughout was of metal, and the aircraft was notable at the time for its high speed, much greater than that of its competitors. The prototype Pegaso was exhibited at the 1973 Paris Air Show. Before arrangements could be made to produce the aircraft in series, however, Italair ran out of money, and the rights to the design reverted to Frati.

In the early 1980s, Frati designed a modernised version of the aircraft, powered by Allison 250 turboprop engines in place of the Pegaso's piston engines and equipped with a large sliding bubble canopy. Built by Frati's own company, General Avia, and named the '''F.20TP Condor''', this version first flew on 7 May 1983. Frati hoped that this version might attract military buyers who could use it for training, maritime patrol, or even ground attack, and the prototype was equipped with two pylons under each wing to demonstrate its capacity to carry external stores. Although exhibited at the Paris Air Show in 1985, development of the Condor was postponed in favour of the Promavia Jet Squalus that Frati was working on at the time, and was eventually abandoned.

==Specifications (F.20 Pegaso)== {{Aircraft specs |ref=Jane's all the world's aircraft, 1975-76<ref name= JAWA75-76>{{cite book|editor1-last=Taylor|editor1-first=John W.R.|title=Jane's all the world's aircraft, 1975-76|date=1975|publisher=Franklin Watts Inc.|location=New York|isbn=978-0531032503|edition=66th annual|page=132}}</ref> |prime units?=met  |genhide=

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|max speed kmh=400 |cruise speed kmh= |cruise speed mph=240 |cruise speed note=at {{convert|3660|m|abbr=on}} |stall speed kmh=121 |stall speed note=flaps down |never exceed speed kmh=431 |minimum control speed kmh= |minimum control speed mph= |minimum control speed kts= |minimum control speed note= |range km=1013 |range note=with max payload |ferry range km=2060 |ferry range note=with max fuel |endurance= |ceiling m=6250 |ceiling ft= |ceiling note= |g limits= |roll rate= |climb rate ms=10 |climb rate note=at sea level |time to altitude= |wing loading kg/m2=143.5 |fuel consumption kg/km= |fuel consumption lb/mi= |power/mass=0.195 kW/kg (0.118 hp/lb)

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==Further reading== {{commons category|Italair Pegaso}} * {{cite book |last= Taylor |first= Michael J. H. |title=Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation |year=1989 |publisher=Studio Editions |location=London |pages=926 |isbn= 0-7106-0710-5 }} * {{cite book |title=Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1987-88 |publisher=Jane's Yearbooks |location=London |pages=[https://archive.org/details/janesallworldsai0000unse/page/170 170] |isbn=0-7106-0850-0 |author=compiled and edited by John W.R. Taylor; assistant editor, Kenneth Munson. |year=1987 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/janesallworldsai0000unse/page/170 }} * {{cite journal |title=A Closer Look at Pegaso |journal=Flight International |date=25 November 1971 |pages=854 |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1971/1971%20-%202538.html |accessdate=2008-04-14}}

Category:1970s Italian civil utility aircraft Category:Low-wing aircraft Category:Aircraft first flown in 1971 Category:Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft