Displayed also at Le Bourget few days before this airshow

The C-22J was a light jet-powered military trainer similar in appearance to earlier Caproni gliders, although the Ventura had an almost entirely metal structure. The basic C22J trainer was exhibited at the Farnborough Air Show in 1980 and 1982, but failed to attract any orders and the program was dropped. A further proposed reconnaissance version, the C22R was not then built.

The C-22J project was abandoned in 1988 and two of the three aircraft built were preserved. I-GIAC was not one of them.

This strange looking aircraft was designed in the late 1970s in response to a USAF requirement for a low cost trainer. It is evident that the design was based on a glider though in fact it was a twin jet with two Microturbo TRS-18 turbojets mounted in the fuselage. Only two were built and the project was abandoned in 1988