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TB31 Omega - a single engine unpressurised turboprop from Socata

In a museum in France. The only one ever made, and abandoned c. 1990.

Looks really nice!

It was a TP version of the TB30 which were made in reasonable numbers as military trainers.

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Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom

French Wikipedia has some data:

- Vcruise 234kt
- Vne 280kt
- Vs 64kt
- Ceiling 30 000ft
- Climb rate 2097fpm
- Range: 702NM

It’s on display at the terminal of the airport Tarbes / Lourdes.

French Wikipedia

- Le TB-31 n’a pas été prévu pour être armé ( the TB-31 was not designed to be armed )

so does F – WOMG mean F – without machine gun ? or French Women Oh My God ?

EDxx, Germany

In France, all experimentals start with F-W. At the Socata factory, all the TBMs had a small F-Wxxx badge over the final (typically N-) number, used for flight testing. Same at the Airbus factory, also F-W.

It’s a bit disappointing that Socata do not keep their own show fleet. This TB-31 could be doing airshows but there was no sign that they keep their own aircraft even though the company has a lot of history. It kind of looked like a sheet metal shop working for a lot of other companies with a small TBM production on the side, kept for historical reasons.

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