Inside The $1 Million Pipistrel Panthera

[@CHICOFANUCCHI]

Beautiful airplane!!!

[@AviationBase]

Indeed!

[@CalifMat1989]

Great design it looks a flying car because of the interior

[@hafizuddinmohdlowhim8426]

Pricey but cool design

[@Nickdevro]

Why do you title $1 million for a $600k advertised price?

[@RegularItemShow]

Fully loaded and certified will bring it to $1M+

[@ARyanCoke]

Yeah and in what bloody world is either of those prices inexpensive and he mentioned. This plane isn’t going anywhere at that price. LOTS of other options that are better and WAY cheaper

[@s.b.1713]

@@ARyanCoke what do you recommend that has the cruise range, FL comparison, speed with the same range?

[@ARyanCoke]

@@s.b.1713 honestly? Lots. You can buy a Meridian for cheaper than that

[@Assassin1959]

Can you see out the front windshield?

[@AviationBase]

Yes

[@gawebm]

Looks cool, but 200 knots is not enough to make the cost compelling. This feels more like design before function.

[@ac583]

there are many, many legitimate criticisms of this airplane. but 200knots is not one of them.

[@RR-kl6sl]

Such a shame that this plane will NEVER FLY certified now that Textron bought the company for other reasons than this amazing Panthera.

[@UphillAthlete]

100%

[@whoanelly737-8]

Nuts

[@herbbates4713]

It is a three-seat or two adults and two children plane, the back seat is small

[@royalgreenlantern]

um there are two in GA for half a mill

[@capt.olegkonyev]

1

[@The_Draque]

Looks like a copy paste of the DA40

[@747driver3]

A $1 Million fair weather toy. No de-ice equipment. No fast enough to make a difference. good luck fixing your composite airplane. the tail looks like it will snap off in a stiff wind.

[@s.b.1713]

so they designed an aircraft to fail in flight (stiff wind, your words)? Hmm

[@747driver3]

@@s.b.1713 I have no idea what you are even trying to say.

[@ac583]

Fools' airplane. Bad economics, limited mission. Good for instagram, that's about it.

[@PatrickDuffy-u3s]

You're a sucker if you pay even 600k for this plane. You can get as much performance and comfort for less than $300k with other models.

[@cimenozgur]

Which model you can offer? Asking just for curiosity? thanks

[@Nexplane]

​@@cimenozgurno response :(

[@juliuskona3299]

The average man can't prove most of the things that he chooses to speak of and still won't research.

[@ac583]

@@juliuskona3299 a used DA42 is a much, much, much better aircraft at this price range. Safer, ruggeder, and a much better IFR go places do things machine. The DA50RG, while more expensive new and marginally slower, is also a much better machine. I'm not a huge fan of cirruses, but broadly speaking, a good used cirrus in the 300k-400k range is a better aircraft overall than this is. I think you non-pilots here don't really have a good appreciation of how limited this panthera is due to lack of anti-ice and its overall fragility. While the panthera may be slightly faster as a VFR DAY tourer, people looking for this kind of speed and range need real ifr capability and robustness that the panthera does not offer. You'll fly a panthera like this in real IFR turbulent conditions exactly once before swearing it off forever. There's a reason why the DA42 has a long waiting list to purchase while real pilots have a sniff of this panthera based on looks, crunch the numbers, and walk away.

[@american5564]

Rip off.

[@nevinkuser9892]

That's what she said.

[@s.b.1713]

compared to....?don't say anything that is a pussy answer

[@DavidCooney-pz4ru]

Electric plane? I don't know about that.