Daher Aircraft to showcase TBM and Kodiak families at NBAA-BACE 2026, highlighting charter and corporate use
Why It MattersDaher's choice of charter and shared-ownership customers as its exhibition story shows single-engine turboprops being positioned as point-to-point capacity for airports airlines skip, with operating-cost control central to the pitch.
What happened
Daher Aircraft will exhibit its TBM and Kodiak airplane families at next week's NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE), presenting their performance, efficiency and operational flexibility for business aviation. The company says the aircraft's operating efficiency and access to a broad range of airports let charter operators and owners serve destinations outside conventional airline networks.
The static display is the "Aircraft Connection" at Henderson Executive Airport, booth AC-23, where a TBM 980 and a Kodiak 900 will be shown. Daher also plans to spotlight customers using TBMs and Kodiaks for charter and corporate travel in the United States, Mexico and Europe.
The TBM family consists of six-seat pressurized airplanes that combine high-speed cruise performance with flexibility for business travel and charter missions. Daher Aircraft's maintenance program is intended to help operators manage maintenance costs, supporting use in both commercial charter and private business travel. The Kodiak family consists of unpressurized 10-seat airplanes with short takeoff and landing (STOL) capability, allowing access to remote and challenging airstrips. Daher cites its rugged airframe, predictable low-speed handling and a cabin with excellent visibility.
Customers on show
In the United States, Little Hawk Logistics has built a charter business around TBM aircraft. Since beginning TBM operations in April 2014, its fleet has carried more than 7,000 passengers, flown over 1.6 million nautical miles and accumulated more than 8,000 block hours. Its aircraft have served more than 500 U.S. airports, approximately three-fifths of which have no scheduled airline service.
Little Hawk currently operates two TBM 900s and a TBM 910. The company owns the aircraft and acts as an air charter broker, while 45 North Flight is the direct air carrier and retains operational control.
In France, Lyon-based Calade Air operates two TBM 960s through a Groupement d'Intérêt Économique (GIE), a group ownership structure that lets local businesspeople share access to an aircraft through fractional ownership. Having progressed from its original TBM 700, Calade Air is developing a back-office system that could help extend the GIE model to other French cities.
Industry impact & what to watch
Daher's choice of customer stories is the signal here. Rather than leading with a new product, it leads with how two very different business models use the same aircraft class: a broker-and-carrier charter arrangement in the United States and a shared-ownership group in France. Both rest on the same proposition, point-to-point access to airports that scheduled airlines do not serve, which Little Hawk's figure of roughly three-fifths of its 500-plus airports lacking airline service illustrates.
For the segment, that points to how light turboprop economics work: utilisation and maintenance cost per hour decide whether a small aircraft earns its place in a charter fleet, which is why Daher pairs the airframe pitch with its maintenance program. The split between owner, broker and air carrier at Little Hawk also shows how operational control and commercial ownership can sit with different entities within one operation.
The next concrete marker is Calade Air's back-office system, which would indicate whether the GIE structure can be replicated in other French cities. At the show itself, the thing to look for is how operators and owners respond to the charter-focused positioning at the TBM 980 and Kodiak 900 display.
