The FAA has issued the type certificate for the new Thrush 510G agplane powered by a single 800-shp General Electric H80 turbine engine. The 510G is a derivative of the original 510P model powered by ...

Crop dusters and firefighter pilots in Europe now have a new airplane option as Thrush Aircraft Company has received the sign off from the European Aviation Safety Agency for its Thrush 510G. With a ...

Thrush Aircraft received type approval from the Brazilian civil aviation authority (ANAC) for its GE-powered Thrust 510G operations. Brazilian approval follows FAA’s OK in October of the Thrush 510 ...

Thrush is beginning to ship out the first of its newly certified Thrush 510G agricultural aircraft, which is the first application for GE’s H80 turboprop. Certification follows a two-year development ...

The Federal Aeronautics Administration has issued type certification to Albany’s Thrush Aircraft for the Thrush 510G. After three years in development, the Federal ...

GE Aviation’s H85 is a turboprop engine based on the earlier H80 engine, which debuted in 2009 and was based on the even earlier, Walter M601 turboprop engine, produced by Walter Aircraft Engines in ...

GE is investigating a host of improvements to its newly certificated H80 turboshaft engine as it seeks additional forward-fit and retrofit applications for the retooled Walter M601 engine.

Bulgaria's Light Armed Surveillance Engineering (LASA) is promoting a weaponised version of the Thrush 510G agricultural, aimed at customers who are fighting insurgencies and face other security ...

General Electric's latest turboprop engines are things of beauty. The H Series engines—designed for agriculture, business, and commuter planes—aim to be more reliable and require less maintenance than ...