Daher Showcases Tarbes-Built TBM Turboprops at NBAA-BACE Las Vegas, Citing Access to Airports Without Scheduled Service

Daher is presenting its TBM 980 and Kodiak 900 at the NBAA-BACE business aviation show in Las Vegas on 20 and 21 October 2026, with the display set at Henderson Executive Airport. The TBM range of six-seat pressurized single-engine turboprops is designed and built by Daher Aircraft in Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées), while the Kodiak family is assembled in Sandpoint, Idaho. The unpressurized Kodiak seats ten and has short take-off and landing capability for remote or hard-to-reach strips.

Daher argues the TBM can link many airports directly, including those outside airline networks, serving entrepreneurs and on-demand charter operators. It also highlights the aircraft's speed, versatility and a maintenance program intended to help operators control upkeep costs.

As a US example, Daher cites Little Hawk Logistics, which began operating TBMs in April 2014. According to figures supplied by Daher, its fleet has carried more than 7,000 passengers and logged more than 8,000 flight hours, serving more than 500 US airports, about three in five of which have no scheduled air service. It currently owns two TBM 900s and one TBM 910, acts as a broker, and flights are operated under the operational control of carrier 45 North Flight.

In France, Lyon-based Calade Air operates two TBM 960s within a economic interest group (GIE) that lets local entrepreneurs share ownership of an aircraft. After starting with a TBM 700, it is working on a management system that could help replicate the model elsewhere. Daher says the approach could allow one or two TBMs to be based at airports serving cities of 100,000 to 200,000 inhabitants; no new host city has been announced. In Mexico, operator Vuelatour uses a Kodiak 100 for business travel, sport-fishing trips and medical evacuations.