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In June 2010, Pilatus announced that the 1,000th PC-12 had been delivered. [39] By August 2013, the worldwide PC-12 fleet had accumulated a combined total of 4 million flight hours and 1,200 PC-12s had been delivered to customers. [40] Just over a year after the 1300th, the 1400th PC-12 was delivered in July 2016.
Announced at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2015, the aircraft is a completely new design, not derived from any existing aircraft. [4] It should compete primarily with the nine-passenger Pilatus PC-12 as well as slightly faster and smaller single-engine turboprops such as the Epic E1000, Piper M700 Fury, and SOCATA TBM. [5]
On 5 October 2017, Zunum Aero formally launched the development of a six-to-12-seat aircraft. [11] Purchase cost was expected to stay below the list price of a $4.5 million single-engine turboprop such as the Pilatus PC-12 or Cessna Denali. [11] Zunum targeted a $250 hourly operating cost including fuel, electricity, and batteries, or 8 cents ...
The prototype PC-12 was flown on 31 May 1991. [9] On 30 March 1994, the Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation issued the type certificate for the PC-12; [26] The first PC-12 Eagle surveillance aircraft was built in 1995, further developments led to the PC-12 Spectre; amongst other customers, it was adopted by the United States Air Force as the ...
Pilatus claims the PC-24 is the first business jet to be fitted with this standard pallet-sized cargo door. [ 43 ] The interior colour schemes of the PC-24 have been designed by BMW Designworks ; interiors for the Americas are to be completed at a facility in Broomfield, Colorado , which will be expanded by 50% to cope with the extra demand.
Earhart and Jordan started the global circumnavigation flight on June 26, 2014, departing Oakland, California at 8:19 am Pacific Standard Time in a single engine Pilatus PC-12 NG. They made 17 stops during the 24,300 nautical-mile trip over 108 flying hours, landing back in Oakland without incident on July 11, 2014.
The Pilatus PC-9 is a single-engine, low-wing tandem-seat turboprop training aircraft designed and manufactured by Pilatus Aircraft of Switzerland.. Developed as a more powerful evolution of the preceding Pilatus PC-7, the PC-9 features an enlarged cockpit and a ventral airbrake while possessing only a low level of structural commonality with its predecessor.
The Pilatus PC-24 jet entered service in early 2018, with PlaneSense taking delivery of the first production model. Building on the success of the Pilatus PC-12 turboprops, the PC-24 aims to offer PC-12 versatility with turbojet powered performance. PlaneSense is the launch customer with a preliminary order for six jets under contract. Before ...