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In 2013, Pilatus created a new overseas entity, Pilatus Aircraft Industry (China) Co., Ltd, to manufacture both the PC-6 and PC-12 aircraft in Chongqing, China; this company was run as a joint partnership between Pilatus and Beijing Tian Xing Jian Yu Science Co., Ltd. [36] In 2014, the majority of PC-6s delivered that year were to Chinese ...
The Pilatus P-2 is a trainer aircraft designed and produced by Swiss aircraft manufacturer Pilatus. The development of the P-2 originates in the first half of the Second World War , during which time Pilatus has attempted to secured a production licence for existing Italian and German trainers before opting to design its own trainer aircraft ...
The Pilatus PC-12 is a pressurized, single-engined, turboprop aircraft manufactured by Pilatus Aircraft of Stans, Switzerland since 1991. It was designed as a high-performance utility aircraft that incorporates a large aft cargo door in addition to the main passenger door. Due to its efficient, high-utility design, the PC-12 is used by a large ...
Lists of Pilatus aircraft operators (1 P) Pages in category "Pilatus aircraft" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
Following financial troubles at Fairey the company was sold to Oerlikon-Bührle (owner of Pilatus Aircraft of Switzerland in 1978, hence the Pilatus Britten-Norman designation of some of the aircraft). Oerlikon-Bührle sold Britten-Norman to Litchfield Continental / Biofarm Inc. [9] (BIOF). B-N Group acquired the assets of Britten-Norman in 2000.
The Pilatus PC-21 is an advanced single-engine trainer aircraft; it is often referred to by Pilatus as being the "Twenty-first Century Trainer". [3] [4] The type can be applied for various training capacities, including basic flying training, advanced flight training, full mission management training, and embedded simulation/emulation.
PC-6 cabin interior, circa 1960s. The Pilatus PC-6 Porter is a Short Takeoff and Landing (STOL) utility aircraft.The majority of aircraft are powered by a single Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A turboprop engine, which drives a fully reversible, constant-speed, three-bladed HC-B3TN-3D (or an alternative four-bladed HC-D4N-3P) Hartzell aluminium propeller via a reduction gearbox.
The P-1 project began around the end of October 1940 as the first project of Pilatus, influenced by engineer Henri Fiert. The layout and design principles were carried through to the Pilatus P-2, which achieved success as a trainer with the Swiss Air Force. The fuselage structure of the P-1 would have consisted of welded steel tube, with ...