{"id":28445,"date":"2024-04-22T14:26:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T14:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=28445"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:26:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T14:26:58","slug":"daher-recognizes-margrit-waltz-on-her-960th-ferry-flight-performed-in-a-tbm-960-turboprop-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/international-news\/daher-recognizes-margrit-waltz-on-her-960th-ferry-flight-performed-in-a-tbm-960-turboprop-aircraft\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Daher Recognizes Margrit Waltz on Her 960th Ferry Flight, Performed in a TBM 960 Turboprop Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Daher congratulated Margrit Waltz on her 960th ferry flight,\nwhich she achieved last month on a transatlantic trip that delivered a new\nproduction TBM 960 very efficient turboprop aircraft for an owner in North\nAmerica. As one of the world’s most experienced ferry pilots, Waltz performed\nher milestone flight from Daher\u2019s TBM production facility in Tarbes, France to\nthe U.S. operations base for Daher\u2019s Aircraft Division at Pompano Beach,\nFlorida. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In honor of her 960th ferry flight, legendary ferry pilot Margrit Waltz receives a commemorative plaque at the AERO Friedrichshafen show from Nicolas Chabbert, the CEO of Daher’s Aircraft Division. Photo \u00a9Daher\/JMB <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was a great trip: good winds, good weather \u2013 and with\nthe excellent performance of the TBM 960,\u201d Waltz commented. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her 960th journey was completed in a flight time of 15\nhours, 38 minutes, involving stopovers at Wick in the UK; Keflavik, Iceland;\nand Canada\u2019s Goose Bay; followed by the initial U.S. landing at Bangor, Maine\nand the arrival at Pompano Beach Airpark in Florida. It marked 48 years of\nactivity at the service of general aviation for this German-born ferry pilot,\nwho lives in Pennsylvania\u2019s Lackawanna County. In 1991, Waltz was one of the\nfirst pilots to ferry a TBM-family aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean for\nDaher. Since then, she has delivered more than 300 TBMs to the North American\ncontinent, while flying others to Africa, Asia and Australia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s highly symbolic that Margrit flew the milestone trip\nwith a TBM 960, as her ferry flight services on behalf of Daher during the past\nthree decades have contributed to the TBM program\u2019s success,\u201d stated Nicolas\nChabbert, the CEO of Daher\u2019s Aircraft Division, who is attending this week\u2019s\nAERO Friedrichshafen air show. \u201cWith her professionalism and aviator skills,\nshe sets a wonderful example for all women aspiring to a career in aviation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recalling her experience with the TBM, Waltz said: \u201cIt\nwas love at first flight, as the TBM was a cut above the aircraft that I was\nflying at the time. The TBM 960 definitely is my favorite airplane, as it has\nall the capabilities a pilot can expect. I want to thank Daher for its\nconfidence during the past 33 years, along with the incredible support from the\ncompany\u2019s factory team in Tarbes, as well as from the community of TBM owners\nand operators.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daher congratulated Margrit Waltz on her 960th ferry flight, which she achieved last month on a transatlantic trip that delivered a new production TBM 960 very efficient turboprop aircraft for an owner in North America. As one of the world’s most experienced ferry pilots, Waltz performed her milestone flight from Daher\u2019s TBM production facility in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28447,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28445\/revisions\/28447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}