New RR500 Turboprop engine in the Mooney

By M20BE
October 21, 2008 in Modern Mooney Discussion

https://mooneyspace.com/topic/18-new-rr500-turboprop-engine-in-the-mooney/

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KSMooniac

Posted January 13, 2015

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I'll bet a dollar we'll never see an RR500 on the nose of an M20 airframe from the factory. It was more expensive, slower, and burned a LOT more fuel than an Acclaim as described previously, so the only benefits are better reliability and the ability to burn Jet A. The new M10 line has diesel powerplants, so that is apparently the direction Mooney is going for export sales to places that don't have 100LL.

Maybe if all goes well and thousands of M10's are sold, then we can realistically dream about the next evolution of the Mooney line with a pressurized XC plane, powered by a diesel or turboprop or the future un-leaded avgas and a cabin that holds modern Americans.

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aviatoreb

January 1, 2015

Bump this thread. Now that Mooney is back in business..... How about finishing that RR500 powered Mooney project?

carusoam

January 1, 2015

My time line has a delay in it.... If they start building it today, I will be looking at it second hand in 15 years... Good things are worth the wait... Best regards, -a-

Seth

January 13, 2015

Good Bumb. An update on the RR500 project would be very neat. If they built a new small aircraft out of composite with the Mooney mentality, why not build a composite structure around the RR500?