Piper
M500
- Single Turboprop
- 5 pax
- 1,000 nm
Single TurbopropOut of production
Piper Aircraft
- Passengers
- 5
- Range
- 1,000 nm
- Max cruise
- 260 ktas
- Cabin height
- 3.9 ft
- Max altitude
- 30,000 ft
01 · Basic info
Piper Meridian (PA-46-500TP)
The PA-46-500TP Malibu Meridian is a turboprop development of the pressurised PA-46 Malibu, with larger wing and tail surfaces and a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-42A engine flat-rated at 500 shp. It was certified in September 2000, with deliveries beginning in November 2000, and was succeeded by the M500 in 2015.
- Manufacturer
- Piper Aircraft
- Class
- Single Turboprop
- Production
- Out of production
- First delivery
- 2000
- Engines
- 1 × Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-42A
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Photo: Piper Aircraft · Wikimedia Commons · © Piper Aircraft, manufacturer image
02 · Specifications
Technical data
Budget
- Indicative new list price (2007)
- $1.9M
Performance
- Range
- 1,000 nm
- Range conditions
- Full fuel, full-power climb to 30,000 ft, maximum cruise power, 45-minute reserve (Piper, archived 2007)
- Max cruise speed
- 260 ktas
- Rate of climb
- 1,556 fpm
- Max operating altitude
- 30,000 ft
- Take-off distance
- 2,438 ft
- Landing distance
- 2,110 ft
Weights
- Max take-off weight
- 5,092 lb
Capacity
- Flight crew
- 1
- Seats (maximum)
- 5
- Cabin length
- 12.3 ft
- Cabin width
- 4.1 ft
- Cabin height
- 3.9 ft
Powerplant
- Engines
- 1 × Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-42A
- Power (each)
- 500 shp
External dimensions
- Length
- 29.6 ft
- Height
- 11.3 ft
- Wingspan
- 43 ft
Manufacturer-published or publicly documented type data, for orientation only. Figures vary with configuration, serial number, modifications and operating conditions. Not for flight planning. Values not publicly documented are omitted.
03 · Cabin layout
Cabin plan & cross-section
Cabin width
4.10 ft / 1.25 m
Cabin height
3.90 ft / 1.19 m
- Club seating
- Baggage
04 · Range map
Where the Meridian (PA-46-500TP) can fly nonstop
Range shown
1,000 nm
Published OEM range (Full fuel, full-power climb to 30,000 ft, maximum cruise power, 45-minute reserve (Piper, archived 2007)): 1,000 nm. Great-circle distances, still air. Real-world range depends on payload, winds, temperature, routing and reserves, always confirm with a flight-planning study.
Nonstop from Dubai (DWC)
- Riyadh461 nm
- Mumbai1,044 nm
- Cairo1,301 nm
- Istanbul1,642 nm
- Nairobi1,898 nm
- Moscow2,004 nm
- Nice2,588 nm
- Geneva2,662 nm
- Paris2,840 nm
- London2,977 nm
- Singapore3,160 nm
- Lagos3,169 nm
- Hong Kong3,211 nm
- Johannesburg3,439 nm
- Dakar4,084 nm
- Tokyo4,305 nm
- New York5,951 nm
- Sydney6,502 nm
- São Paulo6,580 nm
- Miami6,810 nm
- Los Angeles7,240 nm
- Buenos Aires7,365 nm
- Mexico City7,769 nm
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