#PEACHTREE DEKALB AIRPORT INSTALL#

One problem with an airplane with a lot of after-market STCвЂ™s (Supplemental Type Certificates) is that the certification requirements are not as stringent and the testing not as rigorous as a factory-built airplane that is certified as an entire airplane. With a properly operating engine and propeller, it is virtually impossible to stall a converted Silver Eagle P-210 in this manner. Now it isnвЂ™t clear yet whether this crash was caused by the engine or propeller or both but surveillance video clearly shows the airplane climbing out and then suddenly rolling over on one wing as if it stalled suddenly.

The one thing that seems to have escaped the thinking of designers and modifiers is that a five bladed propeller creates much more drag in the event of loss of engine power than either a four or three bladed propeller, in fact so much drag that the airplane wants to stop in mid-air right now in the event of loss of power. It was faster, flew higher, and had a higher rate of climb than the factory airplanes.Д«ut it seems that good is never good enough so a new STC was developed, not by Cessna, that installed an MT, German built light weight five-bladed scimitar shaped propeller on this turbine conversion. The propeller was changed as well and the STC was sold to a number of P-210 owners.

#PEACHTREE DEKALB AIRPORT INSTALL#

Then someone got the idea to change the engine and install an Allison, now Rolls Royce, turbine engine instead. It cruised at mid-altitudes and a little faster than the standard 210. The Pressurized Cessna P-210 was equipped with a Continental TSIO-520 piston engine and a three bladed propeller. HIGHLY MODIFIED SILVER EAGLE CESSNA P-210 CRASH AT DEKALB PEACHTREE AIRPORT KILLS 4- MAYBE TOO HIGHLY MODIFIED.ДЄ Cessna P-210 was the last iteration of the Cessna Pressurized Centurion airplane model, at least Cessna thought so.

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