Originally Posted by
MrMachfivepointfive
I will not get on an airplane with you. You are unlucky. The mean time between failures for the PT-6 is 346,000 hours.
hilarious!
But back to the topic. This is bound to happen in certain areas. There has been very little development in the 8-12 pax sector in the last 35-40 years.
Lots of Navajos, Chieftains and C402s were flying domestic sectors when I was learning to fly in the late seventies. Some of these are still around, even in the USA Cape Air is operating close to 80 C402s.
There has been development in single engine turboprops, but less so in smaller twins in this size category and none in piston engined planes
AFAIK.
Perhaps this will come to something
http://www.tecnam.com/Traveller/P-2012-Traveller.aspx