Aircraft
Piper Unveils M700 Fury M-class Turboprop Single
FAA certification is expected by the end of March
Piper M700 Fury single-engine airplane
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Piper Aircraft yesterday revealed the latest generation of its M-class single-engine aircraft, the turboprop M700 Fury, which replaces the M600SLS. FAA certification of the M700 is expected by the end of March and validations by Transport Canada, EASA, the UK CAA, and Brazil’s ANAC are set to take place in the second half. Customer deliveries will start in the U.S. immediately following FAA certification and internationally before year-end, according to Piper.

The six-seat M700 shares many features of the M600SLS, including Garmin G3000 avionics with Autoland, but it is powered by a 700-shp Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-52 with a five-blade Hartzell propeller, a 100-shp increase from the M600’s PT6A-42A, which has a four-blade propeller. Piper also chose Garmin’s PlaneSync 4G LTE cellular datalink technology, which will allow M700 owners to check fuel quantity, aircraft location, oil temperature, battery voltage, and the Metar weather report at the M700’s location and download databases wirelessly and remotely.