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The M700 Fury: Piper’s Aluminum Bullet

What started as a cabin-class, pressurized piston single has evolved into one of the fastest, most sophisticated turboprops in the sky.

Rick Durden
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Edited By:

Omar Filipovic

Above: That’s the new Piper M700 Fury single-engine turboprop filmed by Leonardo Correa Luna. We always felt that the Piper M600 was a good climber, but the new M700 has bragging rights to a 2048 FPM max rate of climb at sea level, which is 30 percent greater than the M600. At 17,500 feet and holding max torque, it’ll turn true airspeeds around 291 knots burning 385 PPH.

In the early 1980s Piper was going after speed in a big way. At the end of 1983 it was delivering the PA-46-310P Malibu, a cabin-class, pressurized single that was faster than any piston single in the sky.

Rick Durden

Senior Editor Rick Durden has written for Aviation Consumer since 1994 and specializes in aviation law. Rick is an active CFII and holds an ATP with type ratings in the Douglas DC-3 and Cessna Citation. He is the author of The Thinking Pilot’s Flight Manual or, How to Survive Flying Little Airplanes and Have a Ball Doing It, Vols. 1 & 2.