Daher Aircraft TBM 960
The TBM 960 is the fastest single-engine turboprop in production, cruising at 330 knots with a digitally controlled PT6E-66XT engine, a five-blade composite propeller and Garmin G3000 avionics with HomeSafe emergency autoland. Daher builds roughly 55 TBMs a year at Tarbes, and the 960 is the pinnacle of a family that has delivered more than 1,200 aircraft.
In short: The Daher Aircraft TBM 960 is a Turboprop with a range of 1,730 nm, a cruise speed of 330 knots and room for 4 passengers. It lists at about $5.2M new and costs roughly $750 an hour to operate (estimate).
1,730 nm
Range
330 kts
Max cruise
4–5
Passengers
$5.2M
New price
Highlights
- 330 kt cruise, fastest single turboprop
- Digital PT6E engine with single-lever control
- HomeSafe emergency autoland
Performance
- Range
- 1,730 nm
- Max cruise
- 330 kts
- Max altitude
- 31,000 ft
- Takeoff distance
- 2,535 ft
- Landing distance
- 2,430 ft
- MTOW
- 7,615 lb
- Engines
- 1 × Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6E-66XT
- Power per engine
- 850 shp
- Fuel burn
- 55 gal/hr
- Avionics
- Garmin G3000
Cabin
- Passengers
- 4 / 5
- Cabin length
- 13.3 ft
- Cabin width
- 4 ft
- Cabin height
- 4 ft
- Cabin volume
- 123 cu ft
- Baggage
- 35 cu ft
- Min. crew
- 1
Economics
- New price
- $5.2M
- Variable cost / hr
- $750
- Fixed cost / yr
- $300,000
- First delivery
- 2022
- Units built
- 230
- Pre-owned range
- $4M – $4.9M
Estimates. Operating costs and pre-owned prices are modelled from industry benchmarks and updated quarterly. Data reviewed 2026-09-13. Sources & methodology.
Dimensions & weights
- Length
- 35.2 ft
- Wingspan
- 42.1 ft
- Height
- 14.3 ft
- Max payload
- 1,446 lb
- Max fuel
- 1,956 lb
Programme milestones
- 2022-03-02Certification · EASA certification businessairnews.com
- 2022-04-05Announced · Launched at Sun 'n Fun, Lakeland daher.com
- 2022-05First delivery · First delivery, to a German customer businessairnews.com
Sources (3)
Pre-owned range & Residual value curve
Pre-owned range
$4M – $4.9M
Estimates. Operating costs and pre-owned prices are modelled from industry benchmarks and updated quarterly.
Residual value curve
Estimated value retention over 10 years from new, by category depreciation model.
Year 10: 62% ≈ $3.2M
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Sources and credits
- Daher Aircraft TBM 960 · ZLEA · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons