Aircraft
A Long Trip in a TBM 910
AIN editor-in-chief Matt Thurber accompanied a TBM pilot on a delivery flight from Tarbes, France, to Camarillo, California.
The ferry flight originated in France and after several stops landed in Camarillo, California, for customer delivery of the TBM 910.
The ferry flight originated in France and after several stops landed in Camarillo, California, for customer delivery of the TBM 910.

We turned right and lined up on the inbound course for the ILS approach, still able to see the frozen ground out the side windows. But looking straight ahead, we saw nothing but white snowy gloom. The end of a near-maximum-range leg over Greenland beckoned, hopefully with a warm FBO lounge, a quick load of fuel and no need to spend an unplanned night in far northern Nunavut.

The TBM 910’s dependable 850-shp Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6-66D was running perfectly, having propelled us from our departure the previous day from Daher’s Tarbes, France factory to our next fuel stop at Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut on Canada’s Baffin Island, perhaps more familiar to some as Frobisher.

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