Partenavia Aeroscooter

The Partenavia P.53 Aeroscooter was a 1950s Italian single-seat light aircraft fitted with a two-bladed rotor.

It was designed by Luigi Pascale with Mario de Bernardi and built by Partenavia.

[1] The Aeroscooter was low-wing monoplane powered by a 22 hp (16 kW) Ambrosini P-25 piston engine in the nose.

[1] Above the enclosed single-seat cockpit a pylon was to have been fitted with an autorotating, unpowered two-bladed rotor which was to reduce the stalling speed and the rate-of-descent if the engine failed.

[1] The Aeroscooter survives and is on display at the Museo Storico Dell Aeronautico Militare Italiana.