Ghim khớp với tag:Turboprop

The prototype Short 360 (SD3-60), the stretched 36-seat development of the Short 330, flew for the first time on 1 June 1981, leading to type certification on 3 September 1981 and airline service in November 1982.

On 4 November 1981 the chairmen of Aeritalia and Aérospatiale signed in Paris the cooperation agreement that launched the ATR programme and its first aircraft, the ATR 42.

The prototype DHC-8 Dash 8-100, registered C-GDNK, flew for the first time on 20 June 1983, launching the twin-engine 37-seat turboprop that replaced the four-engine Dash 7 concept.

Embraer's pressurised 30-seat EMB 120 Brasilia turboprop prototype PT-ZBA flew for the first time in July 1983 at São José dos Campos, the airliner that opened the US commuter market to Embraer.

Swiss regional airline Crossair put the Saab-Fairchild SF340 into scheduled service on 15 June 1984 between Basel and Paris, nine days after taking delivery of the first aircraft.

The first ATR 42 took off from Toulouse on 16 August 1984, 33 months after Aérospatiale and Aeritalia signed the ATR agreement.

De Havilland Canada delivered the first production Dash 8-100, C-GJCB, to launch customer NorOntair on 23 October 1984, a month after Canadian type certification.

ATR handed the first production ATR 42-300 to French launch customer Air Littoral on 3 December 1985, ten weeks after the type was certified by the French and Italian authorities.

The original Dash 8 prototype, rebuilt with an 11 ft 3 in fuselage stretch and 2,380 shp PW123 engines, flew for the first time as the 56-seat Dash 8-300 on 15 May 1987.

The stretched ATR 72 flew for the first time from ATR's Toulouse facility on 27 October 1988, almost three years after the programme was announced in January 1986.

Finnair received the first ATR 72 on 27 October 1989, a month after French certification, and became the first airline to operate the 66-seat stretch.

The stretched 70 to 78-seat Dash 8 Q400 flew for the first time on 31 January 1998, three years after the programme launch, with 5,071 shp PW150A engines and a 360-knot maximum cruise.

SAS put the first of its new Dash 8 Q400 turboprops into service between Copenhagen and Aarhus in early February 2000, the first airline in the world to fly the type commercially.

ATR handed over the first two ATR 72-600s, the new "-600" series with a five-screen glass cockpit and Armonia cabin, to launch operator Royal Air Maroc in Toulouse on 19 August 2011.

On 17 February 2021 De Havilland Canada said it would build no new Dash 8-400s at Downsview beyond confirmed orders, affecting about 500 employees, as the plant lease ran out in 2021.

A partially configured ATR 42-600S short take-off and landing prototype flew for 2 hours 15 minutes from Francazal airport on 11 May 2022, with the final larger rudder to be added by year-end.

On 13 November 2024 ATR said it would end development of the ATR 42-600S short-take-off variant, citing a smaller market and supply-chain problems, after 20 commitments and a 2022 first flight.