Pilatus PC-6/B2-H2 Turbo-Porter Benly ensuring excellent crew safety

ensuring excellent crew safety

intended to wrestle the record for the fastest civilian aircraft in Europe away from the Germans

the other Lancasters of the first wave circled the target area

Their operational requirements were unique in the British Army and initially they chose the civilian 2 wheel drive Chevrolet WA trucks

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Pilatus PC-6/B2-H2 Turbo-Porter Benly ensuring excellent crew safetyOn May 2, 1961, the Pilatus PC 6A Turbo Porter first flew with a Turbomeca Astazou 520 HP engine. It is further improved by installing a new turbo shaft engine, the PT6A Pratt & Whitney Canada with 550 PS, which creates the PC 6B version. With almost 600 aircraft built in six decades, Pilatus ceased production in 2019, again proving that a machine with a simple and durable design can survive many of its more sophisticated and advanced counterparts.