Hartzell Propeller has been selected by John Klatt Airshows as the propeller technical partner for upcoming precision power aerobatics air show demonstrations featuring the Jack Link’s Screamin’ Sasquatch Jet Waco. Screamin’ Sasquatch is a 1929 barnstormer’s era Taperwing Waco powered by a huge Pratt & Whitney 985 Wasp Junior nine-cylinder radial engine and a GE […]
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Hartzell back in business with Mooney
Hartzell Propeller and Mooney International Corp. are again in business together as the aircraft manufacturer has begun production on the first new Mooney airplane in five years. Hartzell Propeller has initiated deliveries of the company’s three-blade, blended airfoil, scimitar props to Mooney’s manufacturing operation in Kerrville, Texas, for factory installation on its Ovation and Acclaim […]
Hartzell debuts Trailblazer props
Hartzell Propeller is introducing two- and three-blade versions of its new swept-tip Trailblazer prop for experimental aircraft and a number of certificated aircraft models. The next-generation Advanced Structural Composite Hartzell Trailblazer swept-tip prop will be exhibited at Hartzell Propeller’s B-034/35 booth at the upcoming SUN ‘n FUN International Fly-In & Expo, April 1-6, and installed […]
Hartzell’s Bantam propeller approved for diesel-Powered Skyhawks
The FAA has awarded Hartzell Propeller a Supplemental Type Certificate to install the company’s recently type certified high performance Bantam series three-blade propeller on diesel-powered Cessna Skyhawk aircraft. The Hartzell Bantam propeller series are small, lightweight two and three blade propellers with a thin, wide chord and swept high performance airfoils, according to company officials. […]
Hartzell TBM prop earns STC
Hartzell Propeller has received FAA Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) approval for its swept airfoil structural composite five-blade propeller to be installed on TBM 700/850 aircraft. Hartzell already has taken orders for the propellers and deliveries to TBM owners are expected to begin shortly, company officials said. “Our new propeller design for the TBM turboprop results […]
Hartzell, Cirrus extend agreement
Hartzell Propeller and Cirrus Aircraft have entered into a five-year extension of an exclusive supplier agreement to provide propeller systems and governors for all of Cirrus Aircraft’s new prop-driven airplanes. The agreement extends a relationship between the companies that began in 1996. It was then that Hartzell began working with Cirrus to develop high-performance, low […]
Raisbeck begins deliveries of swept blade propellers
SEATTLE — Raisbeck Engineering’s Swept Blade Turbofan Propellers are now being delivered after receiving FAA certification covering the entire King Air C90/E90 family. Jointly developed by Raisbeck Engineering and Hartzell Propeller, the Swept Blade Propeller design for the C90/E90 family follows closely after the 2013 introduction of the first swept propeller design certified for the […]
Hartzell selected as prop for Thrush 510G
Thrush Aircraft has selected Hartzell Propeller Inc. as the preferred propeller provider on a Thrush aerial applicator powered by GE’s H80 engine. Hartzell has worked closely with Thrush Aircraft to select a propeller that would get the aircraft, with a full hopper, off the ground in the shortest possible distance, company officials said, explaining the […]
Hartzell introduces Top Prop conversion for Piper Seminole
Hartzell Propeller Inc. has received an FAA Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for a 2-bladed propeller conversion kit for all normally aspirated PA-44-180 Piper Seminoles. The conversion kit provides Piper Seminoles with improved performance, appearance, and decreased noise signatures, according to company officials. The new Hartzell Top Prop kit features 74-inch diameter 2-blade aluminum compact hubs […]