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Trainee pilots to soar in P2006T Twin
Soar Aviation's school of more than 500 students will be able to train on the glass cockpit twin engine P2006T. The school already operates a dozen P2008s and a P2006T Mark I.

Melbourne, Australia-based flight school Soar Aviation has taken delivery of a twin engine P2006T Mark II aircraft from Italian OEM Tecnam. The handover took place at Australian airshow Avalon 2019.

CEO Neel Khokhani accepted the keys to the aircraft from Tecnam sales and marketing director Walter Da Costa. The P2006T is equipped with a glass Garmin G1000 Nxi avionics system and joins an existing fleet of 12 Tecnam P2008s and another P2006T Mark I. The acquisition will enable Soar to offer comprehensive aviation training, from ab initio to complex multi-engine IFR tuition.

“The Tecnam P2006T Twin has established itself as the aircraft of choice not only for the world's most reputable flight training organisations but also for private owners,” Da Costa states. “With more than 280 P2006Ts now in service worldwide, the type consistently comes out on top following the most stringent of competitor fly-off evaluations. We have partnered with NASA, a number of air forces and other niche operators who now fly specialist special mission versions of the twin such as the P2006T SMP.”

Soar Aviation is Australia's largest private flying school, with more than 500 students studying towards their Diploma of Aviation Commercial pilot’s licence, under a partnership agreement with Box Hill Institute.

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