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We touched on this topic in another thread that was about piston to turbo-prop conversions.The ultimate was the Chase/Fairchild C-123 which was originally built as an assault glider, then converted to a pair of piston engines, then booster jets added (the most widely used variant), Taiwan experimented with a turbo-prop conversion and finally the USAF test flew a pure jet version with a total of 4 jets in a pair of under-wing nacelles. C-123 was the only airplane to fly as a glider, piston, piston plus jets, pure jet and turboprop power.Ted Smith built a single jet conversion to his mid-wing Aerostar light-twin (piston engines).Beechcraft converted a King Air light-twin from turboprops to over-wing jets.King Air was in turn a turboprop conversion of their piston-powered Queenaire. Queenaires may have only sold in small numbers, but more turbo-prop King Airs have sold than all other light twin turboprops combined.
We touched on this topic in another thread that was about piston to turbo-prop conversions.
The ultimate was the Chase/Fairchild C-123 which was originally built as an assault glider, then converted to a pair of piston engines, then booster jets added (the most widely used variant), Taiwan experimented with a turbo-prop conversion and finally the USAF test flew a pure jet version with a total of 4 jets in a pair of under-wing nacelles. C-123 was the only airplane to fly as a glider, piston, piston plus jets, pure jet and turboprop power.
Ted Smith built a single jet conversion to his mid-wing Aerostar light-twin (piston engines).
Beechcraft converted a King Air light-twin from turboprops to over-wing jets.
King Air was in turn a turboprop conversion of their piston-powered Queenaire. Queenaires may have only sold in small numbers, but more turbo-prop King Airs have sold than all other light twin turboprops combined.
