Pilatus PC-6/C Turbo Porter by AliceFromLake
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Description
The Pilatus PC-6 Porter is a single-engined STOL utility aircraft designed by Pilatus Aircraft of Switzerland. First flown in 1959, the PC-6 was produced at Pilatus Flugzeugwerke in Stans, Switzerland. It has been built in both piston engine- and turboprop-powered versions, and was produced under licence for a time by Fairchild Hiller in the United States. After 604 deliveries in 63 years, Pilatus ended production in 2022.
This aircraft can operate from every small airstrip with incredible STOL capabilities.
This here is the Fairchild version with the Garrett turbo engine.
Made with Unreal Engine.
Comments (2)
3DClassics123456
Never heard of this airplane. interesting model and history, nice render!
FurNose
Actually, Pilatus intended to just build a few of them. It was a somewhat quickly thrown together construction. A very simple fuselage and for the rudder, they simply cut an elevator in halves and placed it on top of the fuselage. But the STOL capability and flight characteristics where so phenomenal (it was almost a glider), that it became a bestseller and Pilatus made it for many, many years and it was used not only by the swiss airforce, but by many companies and organisations, who needed a plane, capable of carrying a good payload (cargo or personel) and being able to operate from short improvised landing strips.
You did an amazing job on this image!
AliceFromLake
Thank you. Yes, this is a very interesting aircraft.