Scuderia Ferrari
This story starts, odd as it may seem, in 1923 when Count Francesco Baracca, a fighter pilot who flew more than thirty successful missions on behalf of the allied forces, adopted a distinctive prancing horse as his personal emblem, and had it emblazoned prominently on his biplane fighter aircraft. Post-war, in 1923, another Italian gentleman earned hero status in a quite different way: Enzo Ferrari drove to victory on the Salvio circuit in Ravenna. This performance, legend has it, so impressed Count Baracca’s mother, the Countess Paolina, that she donated her son’s symbol to him, saying to use the horse, on cars and it will bring you him good luck. Ferrari himself added a background of yellow to the black horse, symbolic of his birth city, Modena, and thus the now famous Ferrari “cavallino rampante” was born. Since then the prancing horse has remained Ferrari's trademark, and now the ’Cavallino Rampante' has returned to aviation thanks to Piaggio Aero.
The P.180 Avanti II is the only aircraft to proudly display the legendary prancing horse as part of its livery, because it is the business aircraft flown by the "Scuderia Ferrari" the Ferrari racing team.
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