16 December 2014
Daher-Socata has announced the delivery of its 700th series production TBM turboprop aircraft.
The milestone aircraft, a TBM 900, was provided to a private customer in Illinois, USA through a sale organised by Muncie Aviation – the authorised TBM distributor based at Muncie Municipal Airport, Indiana.
“This 700th TBM’s delivery demonstrates the full acceptance of the single-engine turboprop concept, which is the flagship of Daher’s aerospace activities,” said Stéphane Mayer, President and CEO of Daher-Socata. “We are now setting our sights on the next milestones.”
Daher-Socata’s TBM 700 version was the first series-production pressurised single-engine aircraft to be certified, and after several steps, the 300th TBM of this type came off the assembly line in June 2004. A total of 324 TBM 700s – all powered by a 700-shp engine – were built and delivered worldwide.
Daher-Socata unveiled its latest version, the TBM 900, in March 2014, rapidly logging 50 initial sales – of which 35 already have been delivered. The aircraft was featured on the May 2014 cover of FLYER.
Nicolas Chabbert, the Senior Vice-President of Daher-Socata Airplane Business Unit and President of SOCATA North America, noted that the global TBM fleet has now accumulated nearly 1.2 million flight hours in 35 countries.
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