Here's an odd one. The Sreya SA-6 Envoy single-engine turboprop. It was displayed at Oshkosh/Airventure 2007 and, as far as I can tell, never flown.
Designed by a guy named Rienk Ayers (notice the spelling of the aircraft company), the Envoy was intended to be offered with either retractable gear or, as pictured, with rather ungainly fixed gear.
The base price was based upon the aircraft being equipped with a Walter M601 powerplant fitted with a three-blade prop. The base version was also intended to be unpressurized, with fixed landing gear.
Strangely, although the project seems to have been abandoned and the airframe left to rot at Santa Maria Public Airport in California, the website (http://www.sreyaaviation.com) is live and suggests the first flight and bustling production are imminent.
But then, isn't that so often the image that is intensely cultivated by would-be airframe manufacturers?
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