Denali

We round up the latest entrants in the wide world of FLYING.

Aircraft company plans to bring its best to the annual show.

The single-engine turboprop still under development from Textron Aviation will come with the emergency protocol standard.

The new 5-blade composite propeller would be the first to the field with the GE Catalyst turboprop powerplant.

Textron continues to provide innovation with their Cessna Sky Courier and Beechcraft Denali aircraft. The twin engined turboprop, Sky Courier is optimized for cargo operations with companies like FedEx. Denali, a single engine turboprop, is expected to have 20 percent better fuel efficiency, with lower operating costs and better performance than its peers. 

Flight lasted 2 hours and 1 minute and the aircraft reached a max altitude of 15,500 feet

C1106 propeller features a 105-inch diameter, composite, five-blade, and constant-speed design.

The new turboprop brings together the Beechcraft airframe and GE Aviation powerplant for the first time in the air.

An important achievement has been completed in the Catalyst turboprop program: GE Aviation announced Thursday the first flight of its clean-sheet design on a Beechcraft King Air test bed in Berlin, Germany. The one-hour, 40-minute flight departed Berlin’s Schönefeld Airport yesterday morning after completing ground run tests on September 27. Run, baby, run! GE's Catalyst […]

GE Aviation’s Catalyst engine will be the company’s first, all-new clean sheet turboprop engine in 50 years, according to the company’s website. It borrows many technologies from GE’s big engine business to create a full-authority digital engine control (FADEC) turboprop that—if it lives up to expectations—is certain to give Pratt & Whitney Canada’s venerable PT6 […]