Zonda-Grade Interiors, Now at 12,000 Meters: Pagani Takes Its Craft to the Skies

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Pagani has long since stopped being just a hypercar marque. The Modena company, known for the Zonda and Huayra, now dresses the interiors of private jets, helicopters and even wide-body airliners through its Pagani Arte division.

Pagani showed its aviation projects at the Catarina Aviation Show in São Paulo — precisely the kind of place where a bespoke aircraft cabin isn't a fantasy but part of the purchase. The Italians offer exactly what people love about their cars: expensive leather, carbon, hand-finishing and the sense of an object made to order rather than off a catalogue.

One of the most striking projects — the Airbus ACJ319 neo Infinito, created together with Airbus back in 2017. Its party trick — a high-resolution curved screen on the ceiling that shows a live view of the sky overhead. The result is the effect of a huge transparent roof, only in a business jet. Pagani also presents cabin designs for the Gulfstream G650ER.

The track-only Huayra R was brought to the show as well. Strictly speaking it has nothing to do with aviation, but it neatly explains the brand's approach: at Pagani they love to talk about lines that «cut through the air», and that idea sells just as well in a hypercar as it does in an aircraft.

For the ordinary car industry this is almost a parallel reality. But for Pagani the logic is clear: if a client is willing to pay for carbon and leather in a car, they may want the same world around them at an altitude of 12 kilometers.