Pilatus PC-10
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Pilatus PC-10 was the common name of different designs for a twin-engine aircraft from the manufacturer Pilatus Aircraft , none of which, however, reached production maturity.
Turboprop version of the PC-8D / PC-10 Twin Porter
The first draft was basically an unchanged Pilatus PC-8D , which would have been equipped with propeller turbines instead of the piston engines .
PC-10 Minitwin
A machine for 11 people was designed under the name PC-10 Minitwin, which had a cargo door with an integrated passenger door on the left rear side of the fuselage. The aircraft had a projected total length of 11.44 m and a height of 4.75 m with a wingspan of 16 m.
Twin project PC-10
A somewhat larger aircraft was designed under the name Twin Project PC-10, which only had a sliding passenger door on the left side of the fuselage that opened towards the rear. A loading ramp was integrated in the rear of the fuselage for this purpose. The aircraft would have had a total length of 13.50 m, a height of 6.08 m and a wingspan of 19 m. The machine should be able to transport 16 people or almost 2 tons of cargo. It would have been fitted with fixed nose landing gear and powered by two Garrett AiResearch TPE-331 or Pratt & Whitney PT6A-27 turboprop engines. Outwardly, the two last-named designs were very similar to the DHC-6 Twinotter in terms of landing gear, wings and engine arrangement, but the horizontal stabilizer, as an obvious difference, was an enlarged version of the design used in the Pilatus PC-6 and Pilatus PC-8 Twin Porter, the has no arrow. The project was not pursued any further.
PC-10 master porter
The PC-10 Masterporter was a project for a military cargo plane. Designed as a high-decker with two turbopropturbines, with a two-man cockpit, retractable landing gear and rear loading ramp. The size and design of the PC-10 Masterporter would have roughly corresponded to the CASA C-212 . Since the demand for such an aircraft in the Swiss Air Force as a launch costumer could not assert itself, the project was terminated.
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