We Fly: Epic E1000 AX

This turboprop is a top-end, heavy-hauling speed merchant.

Rick Durden

Tuesday, July 22, 2025 at 07:30 AM ET

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Edited By:

Travis Tingle

The Epic E1000 AX in flight [Courtesy: Epic Aircraft]

Key Takeaways:

The Epic E1000 AX is a high-performance, carbon-fiber single-engine turboprop, featuring the most powerful engine in its class (1,200 hp) and a top speed of 333 knots.
It boasts a major avionics upgrade to the Garmin G1000 NXi suite, incorporating advanced safety features such as Autothrottle and Autoland for autonomous emergency landing capabilities.
Built with a robust, utility-category certified composite airframe, the E1000 AX offers superior structural strength, aerodynamic efficiency, and impressive loading flexibility, with useful loads often exceeding advertised figures.
Despite its advanced automation, the aircraft is highly praised as a "pilot's airplane" for its responsive hand-flying characteristics, supported by a comprehensive in-house training program.

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The curves compel. Looking at the flowing, complex bends of the carbon fiber airframe, the flawless fairing of the windshield, windows and deice boots with the skin as it stands tall on its trailing-link landing gear, one tends to think that the Epic E1000 AX just slips between the air molecules.

Well, sort of. Its clean design is augmented by the most power ever hung on a production turboprop single—1,200 hp, making it the fastest of the breed.