PL-12 Airtruk Archives

3 April 2026

Transavia PL-12 Airtruk

3 April 2025 Jacek Domański

The story of this unusual aircraft begins in Italy in the mid-1940s, when engineer Luigi Pellarini collaborated with the Milan-based company Carrozzeria Colli. Together, they developed a series of “flying car” prototypes (PL-1 to PL-5), […]

22 April 1965 – first flight of Transavia PL-12 Airtruk

21 April 2022 Jacek Domański

On 22nd April 1965, PL-12 Airtruk, an agricultural aircraft developed by Australian manufacturer Transavia Corporation, performed its first flight. The story of that quite odd-looking aircraft goes back to Italy and the mid-1940s. At that […]

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