If you can only fly one turbo prop for the rest of your life...

[currysonic]

What would it be and why?

I think it would be the twin otter, just for the range of flying it can do. Slap on skis go on snow, slap on floats go on water and so forth. Its a good adventure airplane.

CL415 would be my second choice! (Grew up watching Talespin back in the 90's)

[PilotDAR]

Well... Choosing only one would be difficult. Dream turboprop is the Shin Meiwa flying boat. If not, then yes, Twin Otter amphibian. But the Sia Marchetti 1019 is lot of fun too! So, sorry, I can't decide....

[fish4life]

For work or pleasure?

[Schooner69A]

Commander 1000...

Fast, responsive; a delight to fly.

[goingnowherefast]

People seem to like Twin Otters, but the work that's done with the Twin Otter isn't as much fun. Rolling fuel barrels out the door and loading snow machines in -30 gets old quick. Then it's too slow to be a personal traveling machine. So as awesome as it it, it's not my plane.

For me, it depends. Want to make sure that the rest of my life isn't going to end in that airplane.
If I'm doing one flight a week, something fun like a Harvard II or Pilatus PC-21 would be great.
If I'm flying it 20 hours a week, something like a Q400 would be the safest.

However, a more realistic answer is whatever turboprop is operated by a company that offers the best lifestyle for me. My favorite airplane is the one that provides my paycheck.

A King Air F90 or B200 would make a nice personal travelling machine. Hell, why not get a VVIP interior in a Q400 and tour around in style. By that point, I'd be sipping my gin and tonic in the back while somebody else flies me around

[SuperchargedRS]

I'd say the supervan, probably the most fun to fly so far.

[currysonic]

For work or pleasure?

[NovaBoy]

Dash-8, not that fancy Q, the good ol' Series 100.

[fish4life]

Pleasure would be one the high hp caravans on amphibs, work would be a dash 7

[Meatservo]

Vickers Viscount, with the interior finished like an oil sheikh lived in it.

No, wait: Saunders-Roe Princess.

The logistics of having to retain a flight crew and engineers to keep either one going sort of dictate it'd have to be for "work", if there was a market among the super-wealthy elite for some ultra-first-class transoceanic work.

As a personal plane, I actually think the MU-2 would be a blast.

[Slats]

For personal, twin otter. Big enough to fit the fellas and all their hunting gear and capable of going anywhere you'd want to with twin PT6 reliability and IFR if you need it.
For work, turbo Beaver. Even better performance, but day VFR only and fits a lot less bullshit.

[WileyCoyote]

Turbine DC3

[lownslow]

So hard to pick while still being weird...

How about a B-17?


A Beech 18?


A louder Beech 18?


A twin Otter? No, not the kind you're probably thinking of, an actual Otter hat's been made into a twin:


Or maybe just some boring Piper single from the eighties:

[AWOS]

Tough choice. King Air, PC12 or Twotter for me. Anything bigger would probably be too much, unless I was running a business.

[PointyEngine]

King Air 350 with the 1,200SHP Blackhawk upgrade and long range tanks would do nicely for a private commuter or run-about toy!

http://www.blackhawk.aero/20160830-xp67a-launch/

[RG500]

Cessna Conquest II or a Cheyenne IV

[turbo-prop]

King Air 350 with the 1,200SHP Blackhawk upgrade and long range tanks would do nicely for a private commuter or run-about toy!

I second this!!!!

[Sulako]

Mitsubishi MU-2 ftw

[Saxub]

-8 flying through BC or NWT/Yukon.

[5x5]

New Avanti EVO - fast, sleek, sexy. If I had to be "stuck" flying one aircraft, this would be it. As long as I also had the wherewithal to support the associated lifestyle.