Piper Cheyenne IIXL

In the mid-1960s, Piper Aircraft realized that it needed to develop a twin turboprop as a step-up airplane for its cabin-class piston-twin customers. The quickest and least expensive approach was to strap a couple of 620-shp Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A turboprops to the existing Pressurized Navajo...

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