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Milestone 800th TBM Delivered to Elliott Aviation
By: Chad Trautvetter
Caption: According to Daher, the TBM 700 was the first civilian pressurized single turboprop aircraft to be certified, entering full production in 1991.
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Daher handed over its 800th TBM turboprop single—a TBM 930 registered as N930EA—to Elliott Aviation yesterday in Des Moines, Iowa, just one week after rolling out the milestone aircraft from its final assembly line at France’s Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrenees Airport, the company announced today. Elliott Aviation is Daher’s authorized TBM distributor for North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota and Iowa. N930EA was flown across the Atlantic Ocean over the weekend and completed its final leg from Bangor, Maine, to Des Moines yesterday morning, according to FlightAware.

“The 800th TBM represents another important achievement and highlights the success of our turboprop aircraft family, whose first model, the TBM 700, enteredproduction 25 years ago,” said Nicolas Chabbert, senior vice president of the Daher airplane business unit. “We remain confident in the TBM family’s future, backed by continuous developments that brought us to the latest TBM 930 and TBM 900 versions, today.”

According to Daher, the TBM 700 was the first civilian pressurized single turboprop aircraft to be certified, entering full production in 1991. The company delivered its 500th and 600th TBMs—both Model 850s—in 2009 and 2011, respectively. Its 700th TBM was a TBM 900 completed in 2014. To date, Daher has delivered 132 TBM 900s and 930s since the former was launched in March 2014.