TurboProp Plane ID request

[Dennis Mayer]

I've read this newsgroup for 4 months with great Aero interest.....

Today in GBay, WI an unusually large single prop, turbo engine plane

flew quite low overhead... It reminded me of a fat, long Bell XP-59.

Plane had a single nose Prop, sound of a jet engine, tall T tail, and

both a fat & long fuselage with straight wings.... What Plane was
this ??

Minutes before a DC-10/KC-10 appeared at medium altitude....

[Paul Tomblin]

In a previous article, Dennis Mayer > said:
> Plane had a single nose Prop, sound of a jet engine, tall T tail, and
> both a fat & long fuselage with straight wings.... What Plane was
>this ??

Possibly a Pilatus PC-12?
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraft_genericsearch=Pilatus%20PC-12&distinct_entry=true


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heart out from the gaping hole you used to call a chest whilst breaking
your sternum and playing air guitar with your ribcage. -- Tai

[Dennis Mayer]

Paul Tomblin wrote:
>
> In a previous article, Dennis Mayer > said:
> > Plane had a single nose Prop, sound of a jet engine, tall T tail, and
> > both a fat & long fuselage with straight wings.... What Plane was
> >this ??
>
> Possibly a Pilatus PC-12?

Thanks Paul... The PC-12 pictures I just visited matches the plane
to

a 'T'.. The Give a way was the aft fuselage, bottom notched
'port'...

I know my Military plane ID's well, but never saw nor heard of this
one.

Thanks Again !!






> http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraft_genericsearch=Pilatus%20PC-12&distinct_entry=true
>
> --
> Paul Tomblin > http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
> Alright. Talk. Don't make me reach over there and pull your still-pumping
> heart out from the gaping hole you used to call a chest whilst breaking
> your sternum and playing air guitar with your ribcage. -- Tai

[Paul Tomblin]

In a previous article, Dennis Mayer > said:
>Paul Tomblin wrote:
>> Possibly a Pilatus PC-12?
> Thanks Paul... The PC-12 pictures I just visited matches the plane
>to a 'T'.. The Give a way was the aft fuselage, bottom notched
>'port'...
>
> I know my Military plane ID's well, but never saw nor heard of this
>one.

I'm not in that league, but from what I've read it's one of the best
combinations of single-engine simplicity and turbo-prop performance. It's
certainly on my list of "what planes to buy when I win the lottery", right
after a deHavilland Beaver on floats.

--
Paul Tomblin > http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
"It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty will be charged to
dangers, real or imagined, from abroad." - James Madison

[Steven P. McNicoll]

"Dennis Mayer" > wrote in message
...
>
> I've read this newsgroup for 4 months with great Aero interest.....
>
> Today in GBay, WI an unusually large single prop, turbo engine plane
>
> flew quite low overhead... It reminded me of a fat, long Bell XP-59.
>
> Plane had a single nose Prop, sound of a jet engine, tall T tail, and
>
> both a fat & long fuselage with straight wings.... What Plane was
> this ??
>

It was a Pilatus PC12. Where were you when you saw it?

[Dennis Mayer]

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote:
>
> "Dennis Mayer" > wrote in message
> ...
> >
> > I've read this newsgroup for 4 months with great Aero interest.....
> >
> > Today in GBay, WI an unusually large single prop, turbo engine plane
> >
> > flew quite low overhead... It reminded me of a fat, long Bell XP-59.
> >
> > Plane had a single nose Prop, sound of a jet engine, tall T tail, and
> >
> > both a fat & long fuselage with straight wings.... What Plane was
> > this ??
> >
>
> It was a Pilatus PC12. Where were you when you saw it?


It was about 11 AM in the morning..... Doing garden trimming...

Plane was flying somewhat low (heard jet engine) from East to West...

I was in backyard... about 2 miles SE of Lambeau Field (Packer
Country).

I'm located just East of the FOX River in GBay.

[Steven P. McNicoll]

"Dennis Mayer" > wrote in message
...
>
> It was about 11 AM in the morning..... Doing garden trimming...
>
> Plane was flying somewhat low (heard jet engine) from East to West...
>
> I was in backyard... about 2 miles SE of Lambeau Field (Packer
> Country).
>
> I'm located just East of the FOX River in GBay.
>

Thanks. It was "somewhat low" because it was landing at Austin Straubel.

[Greg Farris]

In article >, says...

>
> It was about 11 AM in the morning..... Doing garden trimming...
>
> Plane was flying somewhat low (heard jet engine) from East to West...
>


They have to fly VERY low to do garden trimming.
FAST though!! :-)

GF

[Greg Farris]

In article >,
says...

>
>I'm not in that league, but from what I've read it's one of the best
>combinations of single-engine simplicity and turbo-prop performance. It's
>certainly on my list of "what planes to buy when I win the lottery", right
>after a deHavilland Beaver on floats.
>


A lot of operators consider it to be "the one I don't need to win the
lottery to own. . ." The single-engined turboprop is doing a lot of damage
to KingAir sales. The cost efficiency is not so much in the purchase price,
or in the fuel costs, which are both in the same order of magnitude to twin
turboprops, but in maintenance, you have only one PT6-A to overhaul,
instead of two, which is a substantial savings in operating cost.

Ironically, two of the hottest contenders in this market, Pilatus
(Switzerland) and Socata (France) are in places where there are significant
restrictions on single-engine IFR operations.

GF

[Chip Hermes]

Dennis Mayer wrote:
> It was about 11 AM in the morning..... Doing garden trimming...
>
> Plane was flying somewhat low (heard jet engine) from East to West...
>
> I was in backyard... about 2 miles SE of Lambeau Field (Packer
> Country).
>
> I'm located just East of the FOX River in GBay.

It was probably a few minutes shy of 11:50am CDT:

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N335WH

Chip

[Chip Hermes]

Oh, correction, closer to 12:30 -- that was the departure time of the
Pilatus when it was en route to GRB.

[Montblack]

("Chip Hermes" wrote)
> It was probably a few minutes shy of 11:50am CDT:
>
> http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N335WH


http://flightaware.com/live/aircrafttype/PC12
Ok, this is weird, in a cool kind of way.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N335WH/tracklog
This too.


Montblack

[Montblack]

("Chip Hermes" wrote)
> Oh, correction, closer to 12:30 -- that was the departure time of the
> Pilatus when it was en route to GRB.


I missed that. Had trouble finding its flight in GRB airspace. Was it right
in front of me?


Montblack