With Textron’s recent purchase of Pipistrel, I’m afraid this beautiful and innovative aircraft will fall by the wayside. Thanks, Mark, for sharing this one … she’s a beauty.

This is such a modern, beautiful-looking airplane, ever since I saw the 1st mock-up I was Wow'd. In general, I have admired all of Pipestrel's sleek and efficient designs! Thanks Mark!

Beautiful, just beautiful.

This is a no-go product in the USA. It has retractable gear and is not certified (yet). Textron bought Pipistrel for the electric technology and will likely send this plane into the dust-bin with the Cessna TTx.

With Textron buying Pipistrel, I’m concerned that this design will go away. Same thing happened with the Columbia line.

this thing looks sick!

Hopefully Cessna learned their lessons with the controlled fail of the TTx and they don’t screw up this one. This plane got big chances in the market with some small optimized things. Even with Cessna in the background, if the management doesn’t do the same mistakes again.

Windscreen and panel reminds me of an SST. :^)

WOW. What a great toy. Beautiful looking plane. Not cheap but I guess you get what you pay for.👍🏻

Nice video, love the Panthera. You should try to get your hands on a Pipistrel Virus, would make a cool video.

Très belle machine

I have also been a huge fan of this plane since Pipistrel was test flying it. I’m hoping Cessna does not shelf the product , but actually refines it to compete with Cirrus! I would rather have one of these for the price difference!

Nice video! Thank you. How do you like those headsets?

Textron/Cessna wanted to sell the TTX but never got over their mistake of moving the composite layup from the US to Mexico. I think the southern factory ended up being shut down (temporarily decertified) by the FAA due to delamination caused by the humid tropical air during the infusing process. By the time they figured it out, they were in too deep. Plus the old factory was gone, and the workers with it. My understanding is the Pipistrel sale requires that the original factory and workers remain, though Cessna can open other plants. I heard (not sure if this is rumor) that the sale also required Textron to keep producing the planes. Textron obviously wanted the hybrid/electric tech, but maybe they will actually sell the original, too? We can only hope. I'd buy a certificated version if it were available. I'll be in OshKosh. Maybe we'll find out this summer.

Everything is perfect except for the front visibility. Can you see the runway well when you are landing? Could you show us a real-time view with a camera at the pilot's eye level exactly?

$17k a year on insurance? Man, I need to start and insurance company. I was complaining about $1750yr on my old Comanche 250 and $1850 on my Mooney.

Wow skywagon that is a cool bird just wondering why when Mark takes off he calls out before left off this time they didn't super cool skywagon university thanks for that one 👍✌️

It looks like the visibility out the front, especially to the opposite side that one is sitting, is poor. Was it better than the video showed?

Hey Mark , the airplane seemed a bit twitchy or maybe it was the pilot , I would have liked to see you fly it.

Will Textron introduce as a Cessna or a Beechcraft? Hopefully they will offer dual panel Mount side sticks or dual ram horn yokes!

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I'm sorry to hear Textron is buying this. The American way will either overprice this plane or ruin it.....

Yeah Cessna scared, they half assed the Columbia marketing and this will suffer a similar fate I worry

Do an Extra!

So Mark was that a thumbs up .. cobber …?

can’t see out of it … that’s a shame. ever looked out a cardinal?

Neat aircraft, but it looks like the console blocks about 85-90% of your forward vision.

$750000 US , really.

I'm sorry, but his accent is so thick, I can't understand much of what he is saying..... subtitles maybe??

She sure isn’t the prettiest girl at the dance. But at 200 miles an hour she can sure dance. Didn’t Textron just buy them out. Can’t wait to see how they missed that up like the Columbia and everything else.

This airplane costs $600,000+. It will, at a stretch, fly 6000 hours in its life and probably MUCH less than that. But, let's just say 6000. That's $100 per hour in airframe cost. Insurance, hangarage, mainenance, two engine overhauls, and more at least doubles this, so let's say $200 and these are VERY conservative numbers. At more realistic 100 hours/year it could easily be double this. But, the point is - who that is willing to spend such money truly cares about the marginal cost of fuel or 6 vs 12 gph? Nobody. It's bullshit. Nobody who buys or operates this aircraft cares about the marginal cost of fuel.

54 gallon of fuel for 260hp. Weak. This is America. We don't fly like our planes at 12.5 lop like these fuzzy little foreigners. We need more gallons in the tank. Also, the engine should either be 300hp or 210hp. Not this in-between bullshit. Mark, is there enough room up front for a 6'5 passenger in the panthera? It looks a bit cramped up there

As soon as he said $760,000 that made it a worthless plane. So you could buy a bonanza and an extra 300/pitts for that. Ridiculous.