Daher delivers 600th TBM 900-Series aircraft at Paris Air Show

In a press statement, Daher says that TBM 900-series is the best-seller in the TBM’s history, and underscores the continual improvement applied to this product line of fast, efficient general aviation and business aviation airplanes.

The statement adds that to date more than 1,260 TBMs have been produced overall in six variants since the airplane’s service entry in 1990, beginning with the TBM 700 and TBM 850 and followed by the five versions in the TBM 900-series, namely the TBM 900, TBM 910, TBM 930, TBM 940 and TBM 960. The global TBM fleet has logged more than 2.6 million flight hours in service around the world, it adds.

“TBM’s continued market demand reflects the aircraft’s combination of efficiency, sustainability and speed, backed by the global Daher Care support Network,” says Nicholas Chabbert, CEO, Daher Aircraft’s division.

“Attributes for the TBM’s success include its combination of jet-like speeds with turboprop performance, opening access to shorter runways, lowering fuel consumption and providing operational efficiency. We remain committed to the TBM product line’s competitiveness with an emphasis on listening to the customer and applying proven technology for further enhancements in sustainability, maintainability, flight safety and operability,” he adds.

According to the statement, Daher’s TBM 900-series aircraft is a TBM 960 version received by Jim Baum, an American businessman who has been an operations executive in various technology firms for the past 30 years, and also manages the Minus 7 air-to-air visual communications company for aviation video and photography. As with more than half of the TBM customer base, Baum is a repeat buyer, having owned a TBM 940 and a TBM 930, adds the statement.

Daher says its introduction of the first TBM 900-series aircraft was in 2014 with the TBM 900 version, featuring such aerodynamic improvements as the addition of winglets, the use of new engine cowlings, and the integration of Hartzell’s five-blade scimitar propeller. In 2016, the TBM 900-series family was augmented by the TBM 930, equipped with Garmin’s touchscreen-controlled G3000 integrated flight deck. Daher Aircraft further evolved the TBM 900 series in 2018 with the mid-category TBM 910, featuring Garmin’s G1000 NXi avionics.

In 2019, production of the TBM 930 was succeeded by the TBM 940, which integrated the auto-throttle function in its G3000 avionics suite. In 2020, the TBM 940 became one of the first aircraft equipped with the revolutionary HomeSafe emergency autoland system, adds the statement.

Daher adds that the TBM 960 is the latest TBM 900-series version, unveiled by in 2022 and integrating the new PT6E-66XT turboprop engine – purpose-built by Pratt & Whitney Canada for this aircraft, as well as Hartzell Propeller’s five-blade composite propeller with the Rapto lightweight hub. Both the engine and propeller system are linked to the TBM 960’s dual- channel digital Engine and Propeller Electronic Control System (EPECS).