please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . april 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message vulcanair type private founded 1996 1996 headquarters casoria italy area served worldwide website vulcanair.com aircraft example partenavia p68 vh pnt at jandakot airport jandakot australia side view of vulcanair p68r retractable undercarriage version p68 i pdva at nice airport nice france vulcanair is an italian aircraft manufacturer based in casoria near naples . contents 1 history 2 aircraft 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit partenavia was established in 1957 by prof. luigi pascale and produced a quite large family of single engined sport aircraft which eventually culminated with the successful twin engined p. 68 victor and its derivatives . the canguro was designed by aeronautical engineer stelio frati in the 70s first flight on december 30 1978 for siai marchetti that in 1981 developed the sf .600 a version with turboprop engine retractable landing gear and cargo capability with lateral sliding door or hinged rear fuselage . today just ten canguro have been produced . former spare parts producer vulcanair set up a programme to produce a complete range of italian designed twin engined light transport aircraft . vulcanair was founded in 1996 after purchasing all the assets type design trademarks and rights of the bankrupt partenavia . in 1997 vulcanair took over the siai marchetti sf .600 canguro programme from finmeccanica and later acquired samanta a naples based air work operator with sf .600 and p. 68 experience . around 1998 vulcanair took over milan based aercosmos that had bought partenavia costruzioni aeronautiche spa from alenia in 1993 . vulcanair was then in the position to revive the production of twin engined aircraft ranging from the basic p. 68c to the turbine powered 8 000 lbs mtow canguro possibly in a stretched version . 1 vulcanair s current products are based upon the designs of stelio frati sf600a canguro and luigi pascale p68 series . the current production linup is the p68c in a normally aspirated and turbocharged variants the p68 observer 2 a surveillance orientated variant with a mainly perspex cockpit again in normally aspirated and turbocharged versions a retractable undercarriage variant of the normally aspirated p68c the p68r or vr a rolls royce rr250 b17c turboprop powered 11 seat ap68tp 600 a viator and the sf600a canguro . 2 vulcanair is situated on 60 000 sq. m. of space at the capodichino airport in naples italy . aircraft edit vulcanair canguro vulcanair p68 series see also edit italy portal companies portal list of italian companies references edit vulcanair on the italian aerospace information web . retrieved 2007 03 14 . vulcanair homepage . retrieved 2007 03 14 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to vulcanair . vulcanair official page history of aviation in italy pascale s aviatormag.com.au single pieces retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title vulcanair & oldid 738552051 categories vulcanaircompanies established in 19961996 establishments in italyitalian brandsaircraft manufacturers of italycompanies based in campaniahidden categories articles needing additional references from april 2011all articles needing additional referencescommons category with local link same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages italiano edit links this page was last modified on 9 september 2016 at 17 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view