AOPA General Aviation News
It had a tube-and-fabric fuselage, a propeller from a U.S. Army Piper L–4 Grasshopper, and a powerplant pieced together from 65-horsepower Continental engines sold as scrap. Built by brothers Giovanni and Luigi Pascale in postwar Italy, the P48 Astore began a legacy of general aviation aircraft construction that continues today with Tecnam Aircraft.