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Textron Aviation Eyes Large Turboprop Single
While not ready to reveal development details, Textron Aviation is exploring a concept for a 1,500-nm-range large turboprop single.

Textron Aviation is firming up its design concepts for a new turboprop single that will sport a cabin "larger than is available today in this class," said company senior v-p for engineering Michael Thacker. In recent years both Cessna and Beechcraft separately have studied concepts for a new turboprop single, and they combined those efforts after merging into Textron Aviation. Speaking to AIN at EAA AirVenture this week in Oshkosh, Wis., Thacker said the aircraft will be neither a King Air nor a Caravan, but a brand-new aircraft.


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