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Epic E1000 AX: Speed, Load, Grace

Fastest of the single-engine turboprops, with the highest useful load and new Garmin avionics, the newest Epic targets the owner-flown market.

Saturday, July 19, 2025 at 05:00 AM

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Combining big power—1200 SHP—with a 2860-pound useful load and a well-over-300-knot cruise speed, the Epic E1000 AX is the utility infielder of the single-engine turboprops. Epic Aircraft photo.

Combining big power—1200 SHP—with a 2860-pound useful load and a well-over-300-knot cruise speed, the Epic E1000 AX is the utility infielder of the single-engine turboprops. (Epic Aircraft photo)

Epic Aircraft (www.epicaircraft.com) is almost un-American. It just flat refused to follow the general aviation manufacturer’s rule book that says right up front that the earliest version of any airplane shall have a little, dinky engine and can’t carry squat or go fast enough to get out of its own way.

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.