turboprop

noun

tur·bo·prop ˈtər-bō-ˌpräp

Synonyms of turboprop next

: turboprop engine

: an airplane powered by turboprop engines

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Crashes remain uncommon in the area, with the last reported crash occurring in 2001 when a twin-engine turboprop crashed a mile and a half short of the Beaver Island airport. —

Peter Aitken, Fox News, 14 Nov. 2021 His sales guides were Don Dwyer and Don’s little brother, Mike, who arrived by air in their blue-and-white Daher TBM 700 single-engine turboprop. —

Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023 The twin-engine ATR-72 turboprop, which took off from Kathmandu at 10:32 a.m. local time, crashed close to Pokhara airport at around 11 a.m., Sanjay Kumar, deputy director of the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal, said by phone. —

Preeti Singh, Fortune, 15 Jan. 2023 Kevin Lock has flown tens of thousands of hours around the region in a CASA turboprop, a medium-sized cargo plane of Spanish vintage, delivering air freight for Ryan Air. —

Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Sep. 2022 Military officials, speaking at a news conference Tuesday, confirmed that a Chinese turboprop Harbin Y-12 utility plane flew near Dongyin, a tiny patch of land that sits more than 100 miles north of Taiwan’s main island and 30 miles from mainland China. —

Joyu Wang, WSJ, 16 Feb. 2022 Once off the ground, the rotors can rotate forward for horizontal flight, converting the V-22 to a more fuel-efficient, higher-speed turboprop aircraft. —

Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2023 Officials believe all 72 people aboard the ATR 72 twin-engine turboprop were killed in the crash in central Nepal on Sunday. —

Leo Sands, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2023 There have been only two US passenger deaths since 2009, a woman on a Southwest Airlines flight on which an engine blew apart and a man on a small turboprop plane in Alaska who was hit by a broken propeller blade. —

Alan Levin, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2021 See More

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