![]() And, while the upgrade will cost more than a standard overhaul, the additional benefits of a new engine, with greater performance, better efficiencies and the like will be improvements that cannot be obtained completing a standard overhaul of an existing 67B engine. ![]() That may be worth the cost of admission right there at the current estimated price of $800,000. The upgraded 67P will keep chugging along at full power to FL230, an altitude far closer to where the aircraft is happiest in cruise. The improvement will be evident by the fact the original 67B engine starts losing power at 15,000 feet on a standard ISA day. In addition, the 1200-horsepower engine represents 142 more thermodynamic horsepower than the original PT6A-67B powerplant. The upgrade will give operators a PC-12 with a factory-new, higher-horsepower engine that utilizes new metallurgical technology, allowing higher internal turbine operating temperatures, providing maximum continuous power for climb and cruise. The pilot, Daniel Dorsch, owner of Papa Johns Pizza chain in. On 5 July 2009, a Pilatus PC-12 crashed in Rockbridge County, Va., after the pilot reported the loss of the instrument panel and subsequently requested vectors to get out of weather. Blackhawk Aerospace, a company that has made a name for itself for its King Air and Caravan STCs, is taking the popular Pilatus PC-12 single-engine turboprop and applying their experience and a pending STC to improve on the performance of this model by upgrading the factory installed engine to the new Pratt & Whitney PT6A-67P. All 14 people on board were killed: one pilot and 13 passengers, seven of whom were young children.
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