turboprop
noun
tur·bo·prop
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Definition of turboprop
1
: turboprop engine
2
: an airplane powered by turboprop engines
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Over his career, Webb has flown helicopters and prop planes, racking up more than 3,700 hours in the Osprey tilt-rotor plane, Huey and Pave Low helicopters, and the Combat Talon and Shadow turboprop planes. — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, "Meet the new boss: Ex-special ops commander takes over at AETC," 26 July 2019 For its flight tests, Project 804 is converting a Bombardier Dash 8-100, a 40-seat aircraft powered by a pair of turboprops. — The Economist, "Hybrid airliners could come to dominate the skies," 28 June 2019 The 1967 twin turboprop plane was too heavily weighted toward the back, which was blamed on the pilot. — Washington Post, "Feds probe ‘quality’ of repairs on plane in Hawaii crash," 24 June 2019 His new company, Astronautics Corporation of America, went on to develop a gyroscope platform for photographing stars in space as well as displays and systems used today on Boeing Co.’s 787 jets and Airbus SE’s A400M turboprop transport plane. ... — Patrick Mcgroarty, WSJ, "Space Race Pioneer Planted Roots in Milwaukee," 7 Dec. 2018 A month later, a turboprop operated by Horizon Air, a unit of Alaska Air Group Inc., mistakenly landed on a taxiway at Pullman, Wash. A Delta spokesman said the carrier revised its pilot training programs. — Andrew Tangel, WSJ, "Taxiway Collisions Emerge as Biggest Threat to U.S. Air Travelers," 25 Sep. 2018 This is a breaking account from the first 24 hours of coverage after a Horizon Air worker stole a Q400 turboprop out of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Friday night, crashing into an island in the south Puget Sound about 90 minutes later. — Seattle Times Staff & News Services, The Seattle Times, "How it unfolded: Full coverage of the Horizon Air crash and the man who stole the plane from Sea-Tac," 13 Aug. 2018 The regional carrier currently flies a fleet of about 20 Saab 340B turboprops that seat 34 passengers. — Wire And Staff Reports, USA TODAY, "Silver Airways buys Caribbean's largest regional airline," 26 Apr. 2018 The Aseman Airlines ATR-72, a twin-engine turboprop used for short-distance regional flying, went down on Sunday in foggy weather, crashing into Mount Dena in southern Iran. — Nasser Karimi And Jon Gambrell, USA TODAY, "All 65 aboard plane feared dead in crash in southern Iran," 18 Feb. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'turboprop.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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turboprop
noun
English Language Learners Definition of turboprop
: an airplane that has a turboprop engine
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