Avantair, Turboprop pusher aircraft

I went to the NBAA event at the Long Beach, Airport on 16-November and they had a static display of aircraft. The aircraft that I think is cool as hell is the Avanti P.180 (One of these days, I am going to have to learn how to take better photos!)
http://www.avantair.com

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I saw one of these at Albany today, and was wondering what the hell it was, now I know. Talk about good timing, eh? Reallllly freakin cool lookin for sure. Got a pic of it before getting yelled at by the ramp people to stop taking pics. Ill post it once i get it developed.

We used to get 3 a day or so at SRQ they base a ton fo them at PIE so the training flights come in there all the time. Shes an intresting plane. Shes a real slow fuler though it takes forever to top one off and I am not too keen on where they placed the GPU recepticle because it is very near the prop arc.

In Poland they're used for flying medical missions.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0909460/L/
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I've seen one (or more) of these buzzing in and out of Republic recently. Has a real distinctive sound, wonder if that's due to those 5-bladed props? She's a really neat looking aircraft, that's for sure.

We have a couple of them based at PBI too - I saw one today - just didn't get a picture of it unfortunately.,,

Yes, FRG has one latley as Moose said.. I did get some ok shots of her on final but I want her on rotation with the tower in the backround.

Here's my quick grab, which i got yelled at for...

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