All-New Turbine Mallard - Fly Everywhere:Offered by Frakes Aviation

All-New Turbine Mallard G-73TAmphibious Flight at its Best

Spacious and modern, it will take you just about anywhere, with multi-mission functionality for utility, commuter airlines, special mission, corporate and VIP transport.

Turbine Mallard Specifications — Specifications

Where Wings and Water MeetDesigned for Amphibious Flight

Turbine Mallard is the only aircraft expressly designed for amphibious flight. There are no floats to drag you down — just aerodynamic efficiency at its best.

Sleek, sexy and practical, the Turbine Mallard is also powerful and capable, flying 42 knots faster than a float-equipped Twin Otter, with room for 17 passengers.

MissionsAir, Land & Sea

Whatever your mission, Turbine Mallard will provide you and your customers with a unique, first-class travel experience. Passengers can enter and exit the airplane quickly and easily, with no worries about instability or exposure to water. Turbine Mallard is completely capable and comfortable from shore to shore. The all-new Turbine Mallard is amphibious flight at its best.

Spacious and modern, it will take you just about anywhere, with multi-mission functionality for utility, commuter airlines or VIP transport.

Exterior360 degree view

InteriorComfortable From Shore To Shore

Whatever your mission, Turbine Mallard will provide you and your customers with a unique, first-class travel experience. Passengers can enter and exit the airplane quickly and easily, with no worries about instability or exposure to water. Turbine Mallard is completely capable and comfortable from shore to shore.

The all-new Turbine Mallard is amphibious flight at its best. Spacious and modern, it will take you just about anywhere, with multi-mission functionality for utility, commuter airlines or VIP transport. The Turbine Mallard is as versatile and functional as it is beautiful. Interiors are customizable to match your mission requirements.

VIP Interior Configurations

Utility Interior Configurations

Turbine Mallard Utility Interior Cockpit

Turbine Mallard Utility Interior Cutaway

Performance & SpecsAll-New Production & Performance

The Turbine Mallard is fully equipped with the latest Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 engines, Collins avionics, and exacting attention to detail from tip to tail. It’s versatile and functional, all with turbine-engine safety.

Download the Turbine Mallard VIP Brochure

Download the Turbine Mallard Utility Brochure

The Turbine Mallard is a new-production aircraft, being designed and manufactured from the ground up.

Performance

Typical cruise speed – 190 knots
Accelerate/stop, land – 4,000 feet
Accelerate/stop, water – 6,600 feet
Landing Distance, land – 3,633 feet
Landing Distance, water – 4,400 feet
Two-engine rate of climb – 1,400 feet/min
Single-engine rate of climb – 359 feet/min
Maximum operating altitude – 24,500 feet

General Characteristics

Length – 48’-4”
Height (to top of rotating beacon) – 19’-6”
Wingspan – 66’-8”
Height – 5’-9”
Width – 5’-7”
Wheel Base – 14’-10”
Seating Capacity: Crew 2, Passengers 17
Baggage Capacity: Weight – 1000 lb
Maximum Take-off Weight, Land & Water – 14,000 lb
Maximum Landing Weight, Land – 13,500 lb
Maximum Zero Fuel Weight, Land & Water – 12,800 lb
Maximum Gross Weight, Land & Water – 14,000 lb
Useful Load – 5,700 lb
Maximum Fuel Capacity 666 Gallons @ 6.7 lb/gal – 4,462 lb
Normal Fuel Capacity 500 Gallons @ 6.7 lb/gal – 3,350 lb

The HistoryProud Tradition

The original Grumman Mallard was the first aircraft certified by the FAA in the transport category. It was designed for regional airline operations with two pilots and ten passengers and targeted harbor-based, city-to-city hops on the eastern seaboard. Mallards were flown by small carriers (Tahiti-Hawaii Airlines and Pacific Western Airlines) and corporate operators, including Aga Khan.

Beginning in 1970, the late J. Fred Frakes began engine conversions from early radial piston power to Pratt & Whitney turbine engines. From 1970 to 1984, Frakes converted 8 Mallards while in Texas. He later purchased the type certificate for the Mallard and incorporated the turbine STC into the type certification.

The all-new Turbine Mallard heralds back to the original Grumman design, only with 21st century upgrades including all-new Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 engines, Rockwell Collins avionics and a host of other details and design features.