The turboprop ran the international route between Cairo International Airport and the now defunct Nicosia International Airport.
The aircraft was a Fairchild FH-227B twin-engined turboprop that had been built in the United States in 1967 for Mohawk Airlines.
Air Illinois also served the airport with British Aircraft Corporation BAC One-Eleven jet service to St. Louis and Chicago O'Hare as well as with other flights operated with turboprop aircraft such as the Hawker Siddeley HS 748, Handley Page Jetstream and de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter.
It was the first Guppy aircraft to feature upgraded Allison 501-D22C turboprop engines.
On 11 November 1998, a Kendell Airlines Saab 340 turboprop aircraft (registered VH-LPI) went into a dangerous stall situation with the two pilots losing control for around 10 seconds due to icing conditions that were experienced near Lake Eildon en route a scheduled flight from Albury to Melbourne.
American's regional airline, American Eagle, was to retire 35 to 40 regional jets as well as its Saab turboprop fleet.
The Aviation Traders ATL-90 Accountant was a 1950s British twin-engined 28-passenger turboprop airliner built at Southend Airport England by Aviation Traders, a member of the airline and aircraft engineering group controlled by Freddie Laker.
Regional Express Airlines operates services to the airport, flying to and from Melbourne at least 4 times per day using Saab 340 turboprop aircraft.
The plane, a Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 74-seat turboprop, was brand new, having been delivered in 2008.
The Consolidated Vultee XP-81 was a development of the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation to build a single seat, long range escort fighter that combined use of both a turbojet and a turboprop engines.
Bombardier Dash 8, a series of twin-engined, medium range, turboprop airliners
It was most notably fitted to the two prototypes of the Tupolev Tu-85 bomber, but the aircraft, and its engines, was not placed into production because of the promise offered by turboprop engines of immensely more power, like the Kuznetsov NK-12 used on the Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bomber.
The engine is a Pratt & Whitney PT6-67A turboprop flat rated to 1200 hp.
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The LT was designed by Epic Air LLC of Bend, Oregon to meet demand for a kit-built high-performance single turboprop-engined six-seat private owner aircraft.
During the 1950s two unorthodox United States Navy fighter prototypes married turboprop engines with a "tailsitting design", the Convair XFY "Pogo" and the Lockheed XFV.
For a time in the early 1970s, Air Florida provided service to Marathon and Key West, followed by Provincetown-Boston Airlines (PBA) which used a combination of DC-3s and modern turboprop aircraft.
On Wednesday, November 24, 2010, United Airlines Flight 7823, a United Express Saab 340 turboprop operated by Colgan Air made an emergency landing after the crew received a fire indication in the left engine while passing through 10,000 feet.
Interceptor Corporation was a US firm founded in Norman, Oklahoma to develop and market a turboprop-powered version of the Meyers 200, known as the Interceptor 400.
By the end of 2012 Pelton was also managing director of Aviation Alliance, a partnership of ten individuals and companies that intends to sell remanufacturered turboprop-powered Cessna 421s under the name Aviation Alliance Excalibur.
On June 21, 2007, a Let-410 twin turboprop operated by Karibu Airways crashed into a swamp shortly after taking off from Kamina Airport.
The airport also used to have a weekday fixed-wing chartered service using a Beechcraft 1900 Airliner turboprop aircraft, also operated by MHS, which shuttles Petronas and ExxonMobil employees from Kerteh to the Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport (SZB) in Subang near Kuala Lumpur.
LANSA Flight 508 was a Lockheed L-188A Electra turboprop, registered OB-R-941, operated as a scheduled domestic passenger flight by Lineas Aéreas Nacionales Sociedad Anonima (LANSA), that crashed in a thunderstorm en route from Lima, Peru to Pucallpa, Peru, on December 24, 1971, killing 91 people – all 6 of its crew and 85 of its 86 passengers.
On January 18, 2010, a Mitsubishi MU-2-2B-60 turboprop crashed on approach, killing four.
Having spent $US 4 million to produce just $US 3 million worth of product, Aero Commander ceased production in 1968 and sold the rights to the Interceptor Corporation, which developed a turboprop-powered version as the Interceptor 400.
In July 2008 Mooney signed a memorandum of understanding with Rolls-Royce to develop a version of the M20 that was to have been powered by the Rolls-Royce RR500 TP turboprop powerplant.
Currently Regional Express Airlines is the only airline servicing the airport, with multiple daily flights to Adelaide and Melbourne with Saab 340 turboprop aircraft.
Actually a consortium of several different manufacturing companies and university professors, NAMC was founded in April 1957 by executives from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Fuji Heavy Industries, Shinmeiwa Manufacturing, Sumitomo, Japan Aircraft, Showa Aircraft, and Kawasaki Heavy Industries with the goal of designing and manufacturing a Japanese civilian turboprop airliner to replace the successful but aging Douglas DC-3.
The aircraft, an Alidair Vickers Viscount turboprop, flying 62 passengers from Santander to Exeter was eleven miles short of the runway over a wooded area on East Hill, just before the town, when it ran out of fuel and all four engines stopped.
Currently Berjaya Air is the only airline that is operating flights to Pangkor Airport (PKG), from Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport (SZB) with its 48-seats Dash 7 turboprop airliner.
It currently manufactures parts and performs maintenance, repair and overhaul operations on jet, turbo shaft and turboprop engines under license from Rolls-Royce and Honeywell; it also holds Long Term Agreements from other Original Equipment Manufacturers, including Pratt & Whitney, Pratt & Whitney Canada and Micro turbo, whose engines power civil and military aircraft and helicopters.
Before joining NASA at Johnson Space Center (JSC) in 1977, Ron Dittemore worked as a turboprop/turbofan engine development engineer in Arizona.
It flew mainly turboprop aircraft such as the Embraer EMB-110 Bandeirante, Beechcraft Model 99, Short 330 and Grumman Gulfstream G-I with the latter being a regional airliner version of Grumman's successful propjet business aircraft.
Short C-23 Sherpa, military version of the Short 330 and 360 turboprop powered transport aircraft, introduced 1985
This airfield can handle jetliners such as the Boeing 737 and 757 as well as the Airbus A319 and A320, and has mainline jet flights during ski season as well as year-round regional jet and turboprop flights on United Express to Denver.
Currently, the largest aircraft to serve Tortola is the 50 passenger seat de Havilland Canada DHC-8 Dash 8 DHC-8-300 turboprop aircraft operated by Leeward Islands Air Transport (LIAT).
As a result, Time Air briefly operated other aircraft types, including a number of Convair CV- 580 and Convair CV-640 turboprops as well as the Fokker F27 Friendship turboprop and Fokker F28 Fellowship jet.
On 20 December 2009, a turboprop British Aerospace BAe-748-398, with four (4) crew members and thirty-seven (37) passengers, registration 5Y-YKM, operated by 748 Air Services, overshot the runway while landing, striking a cluster of houses and killing a woman and her child on the ground.
An unusual example of the turboshaft principle is the Pratt & Whitney F135-PW-600 engine for the STOVL F-35B - in conventional mode it operates as a turbofan, but when powering the LiftFan, it switches partially to turboshaft mode to send power forward through a shaft (like a turboprop) and partially to turbojet mode to continue to send thrust to the rear nozzle.
Regional Express Airlines operates scheduled passenger flights to Melbourne at least 4 times a day using small 33 or 34 seat Saab 340 turboprop aircraft.
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Additionally Sharp Airlines offers multiple daily flights between Wynyard and nearby King Island with 19 seat Metroliner turboprop aircraft.
The Yakovlev Yak-44 was a proposed twin turboprop Airborne Early Warning (AEW) aircraft, resembling the United States Navy's E-2 Hawkeye, and intended for use with the Soviet Navy's Ulyanovsk class supercarriers.