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Noun(1) an airplane with an external propeller that is driven by a turbojet engine

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(1) His program was an aircraft hangar, filled with almost every variety of primitive aircraft, from a turboprop trainer to a hang glider.(2) This type of powerplant was ideal for lower performance aircraft that could substitute their piston engines for the turboprop .(3) It was a twin-engine turboprop attack aircraft built for counterinsurgency work.(4) A high powered, single engine turboprop aircraft normally requires extensive rudder control by the pilot, and most trainee pilots graduate to jet aircraft where engine torque is not a factor.(5) In a turboprop aircraft, putting the props in the beta position creates an extraordinary speed brake.(6) The turboprop aircraft, which has a 50-tonne payload capacity, is the only one of its kind in operation.(7) The agency received a call to locate a specific Piper turboprop aircraft.(8) Tilt rotors are a unique type of aircraft that possess the take-off, hover and landing capabilities of a conventional helicopter with the range and speed of a turboprop aircraft.(9) The combination of a proven airframe with a turboprop engine widely used in eastern Europe and Russia was perceived to be an attractive way to bring a new design to market relatively quickly.(10) Established in 1939, Pilatus Aircraft is the world's leading manufacturer of single-engine turboprop aircraft.(11) After wasting time and money, a decision was made to drop the idea of turboprop power and use the new wing combined with a standard Super Constellation fuselage to create the Model L - 1649.(12) This notwithstanding, Novikov succeeded to preserve the long-range aviation and re-equip it with strategic turboprop and jet bombers of the day.(13) The new turboprop aircraft is the company's fourth aircraft and will replace the Shorts 360 that has served the route since its launch in January 2001.(14) Even the shared-ownership turboprop fleet is expected to increase by some 60 aircraft in the next five years.(15) For transport, the air force has thirty-two turboprop CC - 130 Hercules aircraft.(16) Buying a turboprop aircraft as a backup is ├ö├ç├┐a possibility,├ö├ç├û according to Famin.