Aircraft
Daher-Socata NTx launch by year-end?
Daher-Socata is still mulling a new eight- to 10-seat twin-engine aircraft to enter the market segment above its extremely popular TBM 850 turboprop single

Daher-Socata is still mulling a new eight- to 10-seat twin-engine aircraft to enter the market segment above its extremely popular TBM 850 turboprop single, but a decision could come by the end of the year.

The so-called NTx program was announced at the NBAA Convention in October, but Socata has not decided whether the new airplane will be a turboprop or a turbofan. Nicholas Chabbert, senior vice president of Daher-Socata’s Airplane Division, maintained at a press briefing yesterday that the company is in “a business plan mode.”