Transport military
Fokker F27 Troopship
The Fokker F27 Friendship is a turboprop airliner designed and built by the defunct Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker.
- Role: airliner
- National origin: Netherlands
- Manufacturer: Fokker
- First flight: 24 November 1955
- Introduction: 19 November 1958
- Status: Out of production, in service
- Produced: 1986-1997
- Number built: 586
- Developed from: Fokker F27 Friendship
- Variants: Fairchild F-27/FH-227
- Developed into: Fokker 50, Fokker 60
Military variants
- F27-300M Troopship – Military transport version for Royal Netherlands Air Force
- F27-400M – Military version for US Army with designation C-31A Troopship
- F27-500M – Military version
- F27 200-MAR – Unarmed maritime reconnaissance version
- F27 Maritime Enforcer – Armed maritime reconnaissance version
Military operators
- Algerian Air Force
- Angolan Air Force
- Argentine Air Force
- Royal Australian Navy
- Biafran Air Force
- Bolivian Air Force
- Burmese Air Force (Became Myanmar Air Force)
- Chad Air Force
- Government of Chad
- Cote d’Ivoire Air Force
- Ecuadorian Air Force
- Finnish Air Force
- French Air Force
- Sécurité Civile France
- Ghana Air Force
- Guatemalan Air Force
- Icelandic Coast Guard
- Indian Coast Guard
- Indonesian Air Force
- Iranian government
- Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force
- Italian Air Force
- Mexican Navy
- Royal Netherlands Air Force
- Royal Netherlands Navy
- Royal New Zealand Air Force
- Nigerian Air Force
- North Yemen Air Force
- Pakistan Naval Air Arm
- Peruvian Navy
- Philippine Air Force
- Philippine Navy
- Senegalese Air Force
- Senegambia Air Force
- Spanish Air Force
- Sudanese Air Force
- Royal Thai Navy
- United States Army Parachute Team
- United States Navy
- Uruguayan Air Force
- Yemen Air Force
Specifications (F.27)
General characteristics
- Crew: 2 or 3
- Capacity: 48-56 passengers
- Length: 25.06 m (82 ft 3 in)
- Wingspan: 29 m (95 ft 2 in)
- Height: 8.72 m (28 ft 7 in)
- Wing area: 70 m2 (750 sq ft)
- Empty weight: 11,204 kg (24,701 lb)
- Max takeoff weight: 19,773 kg (43,592 lb)
- Powerplant: 2 × Rolls-Royce Dart Mk.532-7 two-stage centrifugal compressor turboprop, 1,678 kW (2,250 hp) each
Performance
- Cruising speed: 460 km/h (286 mph; 248 kn)
- Range: 2,600 km (1,616 mi; 1,404 nmi)
- Rate of climb: 7.37 m/s (1,451 ft/min)
Pilatus PC-6 Porter/Turbo-Porter
The Pilatus PC-6 Porter is a single-engined Short Take-Off and Landing (STOL) utility aircraft designed by Pilatus Aircraft of Switzerland. It has been built in both piston engine and turboprop powered versions (Turbo-Porter) and was produced for a time by Fairchild Hiller in the United States.
- Role: STOL Passenger and utility aircraft
- National origin: Switzerland
- Manufacturer: Pilatus Aircraft
- First flight: Porter – 4 May 1959, Turbo-Porter – 2 May 1961.
- Produced: 1959-present
- Number built:581 (As of August 2014)
- Status: Active service
Military variants
- AU-23A Peacemaker – Armed gunship, counter-insurgency, utility transport version for the U.S. Air Force
- UV-20A Chiricahua – STOL utility transport version for the U.S. Army
Civil Pilatus PC-6 Porter/Turbo-Porter
Military operators
- National Air Force of Angola
- Argentine Navy
- Gendarmeria Nacional Argentina
- Austrian Air Force
- Myanmar Air Force
- Chad Air Force
- Ecuadorian Army
- Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force
- Mexican Air Force
- Peruvian Air Force
- Slovenian Air Force and Air Defence
- Swiss Air Force
- Royal Thai Air Force
- United States Army
Specifications PC-6 B2 Turbo-Porter
General characteristics
- Crew: one, pilot
- Capacity: up to ten passengers
- Payload: 1,130 kg (2,491 lb)
- Length: 11.00 m (36 ft 1 in)
- Wingspan: 15.87 m (52 ft 0¾ in)
- Height: 3.20 m (10 ft 6 in)
- Wing area: 30.15 m² (324.5 sq ft)
- Airfoil: NACA 64-514
- Aspect ratio: 8.4:1
- Empty weight: 1,270 kg (2,800 lb)
- Max. takeoff weight: 2,800 kg (6,173 lb)
- Powerplant: 1 × Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-27 turboprop, 410 kW (550 shp)(downrated from 507 kW (680 shp))
Performance
- Never exceed speed: 280 km/h (151 knots, 174 mph)
- Maximum speed: 232 km/h (125 knots, 144 mph)
- Cruise speed: 213 km/h (115 knots, 132 mph) at 3,050 m (10,000 ft)
- Stall speed: 96 km/h (52 knots, 60 mph) (flaps down, power off)
- Range: 730 km (394 nmi, 453 mi) with maximum payload
- Ferry range: 1,612 km (870 nmi, 1,002 mi) with maximum internal and underwing fuel
- Service ceiling: 8,197 m (25,000 ft)
- Rate of climb: 4.8 m/s (941 ft/min)
Transall C-160
- Role: Transport aircraft
- National origin: France/Germany
- Manufacturer: Transall*
- First flight: 25 February 1963
- Introduction: 1967
- Status: In service
- Produced: 1965–1985
- Number built: 214
* Transall being an abbreviation of the specially formed consortium Transporter Allianz, comprising the companies of MBB, Aerospatiale and VFW-Fokker.
Military operators
- German Air Force
- French Air Force (one Transall C-160 is support aircraft of the Patrouille de France)
- Turkish Air Force
- South African Air Force retired
Specifications (C-160)
General characteristics
- Crew: Three—two pilots, flight engineer
- Capacity:
- 93 troops or
- 61–88 paratroops or
- 62 stretchers
- Payload: 16,000 kg (35,275 lb)
- Length: 32.40 m (106 ft 3½ in)
- Wingspan: 40.00 m (131 ft 3 in)
- Height: 11.65 m (38 ft 2¾ in)
- Wing area: 160.0 m² (1,722 ft²)
- Empty weight: 29,000 kg (63,935 lb)
- Max. takeoff weight: 51,000 kg (112,435 lb)
- Powerplant: 2 × Rolls-Royce Tyne Rty.20 Mk 22 turboprop, 4,549 kW (6,100 ehp) each
Performance
- Never exceed speed: 593 km/h (320 knots, 368 mph)
- Maximum speed: 513 km/h (277 knots, 319 mph) at 4,875 m (16,000 ft)
- Stall speed: 177 km/h (95 knots, 110 mph) flaps down
- Range: 1,853 km (1,000 nmi, 1,151 mi) with 16,000 kg payload, 30 min reserves
- Ferry range: 8,858 km (4,780 nmi, 5,504 mi)
- Service ceiling: 8,230 m (27,000 ft)
- Rate of climb: 6.6 m/s (1,300 ft/min)
- Wing loading: 319 kg/m² (65.3 lb/ft²)
- Power/mass: 0.18 kW/kg (0.11 hp/lb)