Turboprop Aircraft For Fractional Ownership

About Turboprop Aircraft

The new and used single- and twin-engine turboprop aircraft you’ll find for sale on ControllerEMEA.com cost anywhere from around 250,000 to 6 million pounds or more and offer a wide range of features and performance. With the ability to transport four or more passengers 1,500 or more nautical miles (2,778 kilometres) on business or private trips special missions, and so on, turboprops in general offer more power, speed, and safety than piston aircraft and friendlier prices and ongoing maintenance and service costs than jets, while still providing similar amenities and features.

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Daher Kodiak 100 Series II Turboprop

Models like the Beechcraft King Air 360 from the long-running King Air platform, for example, equip two Pratt & Whitney Canada turboprop engines spinning four-blade Hartzell propellers and provide a flight range of a more than 1,800 nm (3,333 km) at a cruise speed of 312 ktas, all while carrying a roughly 2,313-kilogram (5,100-pound) useful load. Also representative of the category is Piper Aircraft’s single-engine M600 SLS that can fly nonstop from New York City to Dallas at 30,000 feet (9,144 metres) complete with a pressurised cabin, Garmin G3000 avionics, and the autonomous flying HALO safety system with Garmin’s Autoland technology.

Turboprops In Action

Hungarian engineer György Jendrassik gets credit for designing the first turboprop engine in the late 1920s before creating the CS-1 prototype engine in the late 1930s. The 1945 Gloster Meteor EE2227 that used two Rolls-Royce RB 50 Trent engines is regarded as the first turboprop aircraft to fly, while the Vickers Viscount that took flight in 1948 using a Rolls-Royce Dart engine is considered the first turboprop airliner, as well as the first turboprop with four engines. A Boulton Paul Balliol prototype from 1948 is credited as the first single-engine turboprop.

Although turboprops are slower than jet aircraft, both aircraft types use gas-turbine engines, although turboprop engines rely on a turbine to rotate a shaft that then spins the propeller. Despite being slower, turboprops have the advantage of being able to operate out of most general-aviation airports, making them a popular, cost-efficient choice for many business trips ranging from 600 to 1,000 nautical miles. Compared to piston aircraft, meanwhile, turboprops are costlier initially and often louder to operate but generally provide greater overall reliability (particularly twin-engine models) and less long-term inspection- and maintenance-related costs.

Find The Turboprop For You

You’ll find a large selection of turboprop aircraft for sale every day on ControllerEMEA.com from such leading brands as Beechcraft, Cessna, Daher, de Havilland, Pilatus, Piper, and SOCATA. Popular model families include Beechcraft’s King Air 90, Cessna’s Caravan, de Havilland’s DHC-6, Pilatus’ PC-12, and the aforementioned Piper M600 SLS.