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Daher Delivers 100th TBM 900 Turboprop Single
By: Chad Trautvetter
Caption: Milestone TBM 900 was handed over to Dale Schneider, a North Carolina businessman and 3,000-hour-TT airplane and helicopter pilot.
Word Count: 149
Daher delivered the 100th TBM 900, just 20 months after the updated turboprop single was revealed, the company announced yesterday. The milestone TBM 900 was handed over to Dale Schneider, a North Carolina businessman and 3,000-hour airplane and helicopter pilot. It replaces a TBM 700C2, which Schneider purchased pre-owned in 2006 and has since flown some 1,000 hours.

“This very symbolic delivery confirms that our TBM 900 is the fastest-selling TBM ever,” said Daher airplane business unit senior vice president Nicolas Chabbert. He added that the airplane’s sales success builds on a development program of more than three years, with nearly 30 modifications integrated into the TBM 900 that improve efficiency and deliver more performance without increasing fuel consumption or engine power.

Schneider received his TBM 900 last week at Daher’s production facility in Tarbes, France, and participated in the aircraft’s ferry flight from Europe to the U.S.