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Daher Delivers 1,100th TBM Turboprop Single
By: Chad Trautvetter
Caption: Some 32 years after the TBM 700's service entry, Daher has handed over the 1,100th TBM turboprop single—a Model 960.
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Daher has handed over the 1,100th TBM turboprop single to a customer, the French aircraft manufacturer announced yesterday. The milestone aircraft—a TBM 960—went to Bruce McCollum, an active private pilot who previously owned a TBM 850 and TBM 900. 

McCollum went to the TBM production plant in Tarbes, France, last week to fly the aircraft on its trans-Atlantic ferry flight to the U.S., where the formal handover occurred at Daher’s operation in Pompano Beach, Florida.

“The 1,100th delivery is an achievement that we owe to our faithful customers for their continued confidence, and which is built on the dedication of our Daher teams in engineering, flight test, production, and support,” said Nicolas Chabbert, senior v-p of Daher’s aircraft division.

This milestone delivery occurred just two years after Daher’s handover of the 1,000th TBM and some 32 years after the first TBM 700 entered service. Current TBM production versions include the TBM 960 and TBM 910, which trace their lineage to the Model 700, followed in 2006 by the TBM 850 and TBM 900-series in 2014.