Piper Displays M600 at European Bizav Convention

Piper Aircraft is displaying its single-engine turboprop M600 at the European Business Aviation Association's annual convention in Geneva. “This year’s EBACE convention is the ideal venue for Piper to showcase our new M600 at a premier event with prominent leaders in the European business aviation community," said Ron Gunnarson, vice president of sales, marketing, and customer support. "The new M600’s continent-crossing range and impressive payload capability make it ideally suited for all European operations.”

The M600 features a Garmin G3000 touchscreen-control flight deck. Powered by a 600-shp Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-42A engine, the aircraft seats six people. It has a maximum cruise speed of 274 ktas and a maximum range of 1,484 nmThe M600  also has a standard useful load of 2,400 pounds (1,089 kg). According to Gunnarson, the M600 can fly from Geneva to Reykjavik, Moscow, Cypress, or all of northern Africa, and it costs €900,000 (about $1 million) less than competing aircraft.