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PAC P-750 XSTOL
🇳🇿 New Zealand ·first flew 2001· utility aircraft
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3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. PACP-750XSTOL2: FlugKerl2· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Papua New Guinea Defence Force (P2-702) Pacific Aerospace P-750 XSTOL on display at the 2025 Australian International Airshow: Bidgee· CC BY-SA 3.0 au
- 3. P-750 XSTOL: C.Nilsson· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The PAC P-750 XSTOL (formerly known as the PAC 750XL) is a utility aircraft manufactured by Pacific Aerospace of a conventional all-metal low-wing monoplane design, with fixed tricycle gear/undercarriage. Combining the engine and wings of the PAC Cresco with a new larger fuselage and modified tail, all versions to date have been powered by a 560 kW (750 shp) Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 turboprop. It is designed and manufactured in Hamilton, New Zealand, by Pacific Aerospace Limited.
How to recognise it: 1 turboprop · 12.8 m wingspan
base stats
Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).
fun facts
- First flew 25 years ago, in 2001.
- Top speed is 2.4× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 12.8 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Range of 2,183 km: 12× Amsterdam to Brussels.
turboprop: A jet-style turbine turning a propeller: efficient on short hops.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 2001
- status
- in production
- number built
- 120
- role
- utility aircraft
- origin
- 🇳🇿 New Zealand
- makers
- Pacific Aerospace
- engines
- 1× Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-34
- length
- 11.1 m
- wingspan
- 12.8 m
- height
- 3.9 m
- max take-off weight
- 3,402 kg
- top speed
- 315 km/h
- cruise speed
- 259 km/h
- range
- 2,183 km
- ceiling
- 6,096 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q76891, Wikipedia: PAC P-750 XSTOL (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.