2025 FLYING Buyers Guide: Turboprops

Piper has seen growing sales of its single-engine turboprops, the M500 and M600 SLS.

Rick Durden

Tuesday, March 18, 2025 at 01:56 PM ET

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Edited By:

Travis Tingle

Pilatus PC-12 [Courtesy: Pilatus Aircraft]

Key Takeaways:

The single-engine turboprop market showed mixed sales trends, with Piper's new M700 Fury, Daher's TBM 960, and the Epic E1000 GX experiencing growth due to advanced features, enhanced performance, and customer loyalty.
Key advancements highlighted across models include high cruise speeds, advanced Garmin avionics suites with Autoland capabilities (e.g., Autoland, HomeSafe), and versatile designs for various operational needs.
Conversely, some established models saw sales declines, including the Pilatus PC-12 and Textron's single-engine turboprops like the Cessna Grand Caravan EX, while Beechcraft King Air sales in the twin-engine segment remained stable.

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Correction: The useful load of the Epic E1000 GX is 2,860 pounds. The full fuel payload is 1,100. The print issue included incorrect data.

Piper entered 2024 with growing sales of its single-engine turboprops, the M500 and M600 SLS. In the second quarter, it made its first delivery of the M700 Fury, which we covered in FLYING Issue 949/July-August 2024. With a max cruise speed of 301 knots and a top-of-the-line Garmin avionics suite that includes Autoland, we rated the airplane highly. Buyers seemed to agree. Piper delivered 24 of them in the second and third quarters of the year—a healthy portion of the 36 total turboprops it sent off to new owners during that time frame, in comparison with 34 during the same time in 2023.