Daher has hit a milestone, delivering its 1,100th TBM, a TBM 960, the latest version of the TBM.
The 1,100th TBM delivery occurred just two years after Daher’s handover of the 1,000th TBM, company officials noted.
The milestone delivery occurred in October 2022, when the new owner, Bruce McCollum, an active private pilot who previously owned a TBM 850 and a TBM 900, picked up his TMB 960 at Daher’s headquarters in Tarbes, France.
McCollum then boarded the aircraft for its trans-Atlantic ferry flight to the U.S., where the formal handover occurred at Daher’s operation in Pompano Beach, Florida, company officials said.
Today’s TBMs, the TBM 960 and TBM 910, evolved from the initial TBM 700 configuration, which was introduced in 1990 as the first civilian pressurized single-engine turboprop aircraft, according to Daher officials. It was followed in 2006 by the TBM 850. The TBM 900 series was launched in 2014, with the TBM 960 introduced at the 2022 SUN ‘n FUN Aerospace Expo.