[3e] Pilatus PC-6 Turboprop

[Phaelen Bleux]

Pilatus PC-6 (TL7)
The PC-6 is a general utility aircraft used in both civil and military aviation. It features fixed landing gear which may be adapted for wheels, skis, or floats. The cabin is likewise fully customizable: the three cubic meters of cabin can be adjusted for passengers, ambulance duties, air survey, cargo, parachuting, search and rescue, supply dropping and water bombing. It is used as a liaison aircraft by the French military. It is often known as the world's leading STOL craft.
The aircraft features two permanent seats forward for the pilot and a single passenger. The aircraft burns 24.6 gallons of jet fuel per hour at routine usage; a full tank of fuel costs $525.

PC-6 (B2-H4)
Subassemblies: Body +3, two STOL wings +2, three small fixed wheels +0.
Powertrain: 410-kW aerial propeller with 410-kW Improved HP gas turbine engine, 4,000-kWs lead acid battery.
Fuel: 175 gallons gasoline in Light fuel tank (Fire 14).
Occupancy: 1 NCS, 1 NPS.
Cargo: 106 cf. (2,120 lbs.)

Armor
All: 1/1

Equipment:
Body: Medium-range radio (30-mile), air search radar (50-mile); 6-man environmental control, flight recorder, precision navigation instruments, GPS, autopilot.

Statistics:
Size: 36'x52'x10' Payload: 1 ton Lwt.: 3.05 tons
Volume: 230 cf. Maint.: 43 hours Price: $215,609

HT: 11. HPs: 169 Body, 122 each wing, 16 each Wheel.

aSpeed: 161 aAccel: 5 aDecel: 34 aMR: 8 aSR: 3
Stall Speed: 60.
gSpeed: 185 gAccel: 9 gDecel: 10 gMR: 0.5 gSR: 2
Take Off Run: 213 yards. Landing Run: 139 yards.

Design Notes:
Body is 230 cf; wings are 50 cf each and wheels are 11.5 cf. Structure is Light, Standard with Fair streamlining. Armor is expensive metal. Mechanical controls. Empty weight is 2,685 lbs.
Design loaded weight was 6,360 lbs.; this was lowered 4% to the historical. The wing volume was reverse engineered from actual wing area (325 sf). Design aSpeed was 192 mph; design stall speed was 48 mph; real-world values are shown above. Landing and take-off run values are also real-world values. The above plane is meant to represent a civilian version; there is approximately 4.5 cf of empty space for military upgrades.

Variants:
The PC-6/A Turbo-Porter (1961) featured a 390-kW powerplant.
The PC-6/A1 Turbo-Porter (1968) upgraded to a 427-kW powerplant. The -A2 (1971) was similar.
The PC-6/B Turbo-Porter (1964) featured a 410-kW powerplant. The -B1 was similar.
The PC-6/B2-H2 Turbo-Porter features a 507-kW powerplant downrated to 410-kW. It had a wing area of 310 sf.
The PC-6C and -C1 Turbo-Porter (1965) featured a 429-kW powerplant.
The PC-6/C2-H2 Turbo-Porter featured a 485-kW powerplant. It was militarized as the AU-23 Peacemaker.
The PC-6/D-H3 Porter was a single prototype with a 373-kW powerplant.