The G - 1 is a large twin
turboprop with performance characteristics of contemporary production aircraft.
Not exact matches
Its new regional carrier, Encore, began service this year
with four Bombardier Q400
turboprops, and will add roughly one aircraft to its fleet every month through to 2015.
The Q400,
with a backlog of 50 planes, has about 25 percent of the global market in small commercial planes and comes second to European rival ATR, the world's largest maker of
turboprops.
You'll spend 8 hours seated in cargo netting along the fuselage of an LC - 130
turboprop cargo plane packed
with tons of equipment (from frozen food to compressed helium), struggling to hear yourself think (forget about hearing the person next to you talk).
They also operate another 27 planes under the PAL Express brand, but
with the same logo and sold through Philppine Airlines, including 15 A320 / 321 and 12 Bombardier Q300 / 400
turboprop planes.
The operation of these
turboprop aircraft are also in line
with the company's efforts to enhance customer service by offering a wider choice of destinations and travel options to passengers as well as part of the airline's move to join the SkyTeam global alliance in March 2014 and in anticipation of 2015's ASEAN Open Sky policy.
The
turboprop aircraft is making a comeback,
with sales to one of the only remaining manufacturers quadrupling in 2007 and a continued upsurge expected.
«It was a mixture of many things,» Daniel Desjardins, general counsel and corporate secretary for Quebec - based Bombardier, says of the decision not, for now, to go ahead
with the project to assemble Bombardier's Q400
turboprop planes in Russia.
To Obtain a challenging position for a full time Airframe and Power Plant Technician familiar
with general aviation (fixed wing) aircraft, such as but not limited to: piston engine aircraft both single and multi:
turboprop aircraft both single and multi and corporate jet aircraft.
Island Air, a regional carrier serving airports on all major Hawaiian islands, has 245 employees and three
turboprop planes,
with 224 weekly flights between the islands of Oahu, Maui, Molokai, Lanai and Kauai.