Daher Marks 1,100th Delivery of TBM Series

The milestone comes just two years after the 1,000th model went out the door.

Friday, October 14, 2022 at 04:29 PM ET

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Bruce McCollum, in the blue jacket, prepares for his transatlantic ferry flight joined by the Daher team in the final assembly area at the factory in France. [Courtesy: Daher]

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Daher has achieved a significant milestone, delivering its 1,100th TBM series single-engine turboprop aircraft, a TBM 960, to serial owner Bruce McCollum.
The TBM series is lauded for its continuous improvements in environmental efficiency and operational safety, offering speed with lower fuel consumption than competing jets.
The series, which debuted in 1990 with the TBM 700, has evolved to include current models like the TBM 960 (with PT6E-66XT engine and Garmin G3000) and TBM 910 (with PT6A-66D engine and Garmin G1000 Nxi).

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Just two years after it marked the milestone of its 1,000th delivery of the TBM series, Daher has added 100 more tallies in the book for the single-engine turboprop models.

The company announced this week it has handed over a TBM 960 to serial owner Bruce McCollum, who makes this his third TBM. McCollum, an active private pilot, has owned a TBM 850 and a TBM 900. He met the airplane at Daher’s manufacturing complex in Tarbes, France, in order to fly the airplane back across the Atlantic where he would formally take possession at a ceremony at the company’s service center in Pompano Beach.