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Re:Vancouver seaplane company to resume test flights with el... by matheweis on Monday January 25, 2021 @12:20PM (#25905884)
Harbor Air and Kenmore Air both fly a bunch of turboprops around the Pacific Northwest, I see them all the time ...

Only one of planes listed in Harbor Air’s fleet is a piston: https://www.harbourair.com/about/aircraft-fleet/

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Re:Vancouver seaplane company to resume test flights with el... by notatoad on Monday January 25, 2021 @01:00PM (#25906415)
>Only one of the planes listed in harbour air's fleet is a piston

And that one is the one they're retrofitting with an electric motor

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Re:Vancouver seaplane company to resume test flights with el... by matheweis on Monday January 25, 2021 @01:07PM (#25906504)
It’s true that the Harbor Air prototype is the Beaver, but Magnix has been testing another prototype of a Caravan in parallel:

https://www.businessinsider.com/magnix-all-electric-cessna-g...

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