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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.
In October 2019 the PT6 E-Series was launched on the PC-12 NGX, the first general aviation turboprop with an electronic propeller and engine control system with a single lever and better monitoring for longer maintenance intervals, increased from 300 to 600 hours, and a TBO increased by 43% to 5,000 hours, reducing engine operating costs by at ...
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]
It outsold all of its turboprop competitors combined. It has recently faced competition from jet aircraft such as the Embraer Phenom 100, Honda HA-420 HondaJet and Cessna Citation Mustang; as well as from newer turboprop aircraft including the Piaggio P180 Avanti, and single-engine Piper Malibu Meridian, Pilatus PC-12, and Socata TBM.
During the 1990s, Pilatus opened up a broader civilian market with the introduction of the PC-12, a single-engine turboprop aircraft and has delivered 1,800 as of April 2021. [4] In the 2000s, it also introduced a new member family of its military training aircraft, the turboprop-powered PC-21 .
Pilatus PC-6/A1-H2 Turbo Porter lx Astazou XII 545 kW (731 hp) equivalent. Potez 840 4x 440shp (328 kW) Turboméca Astazou II; Potez 842 4x 600shp (447 kW) Turboméca Astazou XII; SFERMA Nord 1110; SFERMA SF-60 Marquis 2x Astazou X; SFERMA PD-146 Marquis 2x Astazou IIA; Short SC.7 Skyvan series II 2x Astazou XII 545 kW (731 hp) equivalent.
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 ...
Pilatus PC-12, a civilian aircraft; BAP Río Chira (PC 12), a vessel of the Peruvian Coast Guard This page was last edited on 14 July 2019, at 04:25 (UTC). Text ...