Electric tug for the Daher TBM

A TBM is a frequent mover. It is often the airplane that leaves first and comes back last, and the hangar move is part of the day rather than a special event. Doing that with a towbar and two people, or with a diesel tug that has to be fetched from somewhere else on the field, is what owners get tired of. An electric tug for the Daher TBM keeps the move with the airplane: charged, quiet, and sized for one person.

The Daher TBM series is named on GRAVITY, alongside the Cirrus Vision Jet and the Pilatus PC-12. Those are the light jets and turboprops the tug is published for, plus twin-engine piston aircraft. Towing capacity is 5,000 kg as standard and 7,000 kg with the optional upgrade. The page does not split the TBM family into variants with separate ratings. If you fly a specific TBM, name it on the quote and we will confirm it against that published capacity. We will not invent a per-variant number the catalog does not carry.

How the move works is the same nose-wheel method as the rest of GRAVITY. The electric winch brings the nose wheel onto the glass-fiber deck. Leather-protected attachment webbing secures it. You walk behind a 48 V, 1,200 W drive. The tug weighs 170 kg. Ramp load is published at 750 kg. Grass and asphalt are both in the specification, so a TBM based on a grass strip is not a special case the product forgot. It is the mixed-surface job the use cases already describe, including repositioning a TBM for maintenance.

A piston single does not use this tug just because it shares a hangar with a TBM. DISCOVERY is the 2,500 kg hand-steered tug for airplanes such as the Cirrus SR22. ROVER is the low, remote-controlled tug for Cessna and Piper types through light twins, with its own 5,000 kg rating. The TBM stays with GRAVITY because that is where the series is named. The PC-12 and the Vision Jet are the other two types on that same line.

CHALLENGER is not a quieter way to say GRAVITY. It is a coming-soon ride-on with an enclosed glass cab, aimed at large-cabin business jets, and its compatibility figures are not published yet. A TBM does not need to wait for that launch. The walk-behind electric tug with the winch and the 5,000 kg rating is the machine available for this series now.

When you request a quote, tell us which TBM, whether the optional 7,000 kg upgrade is even a question, and whether the deck lives on grass, asphalt, or both. The homepage form is the same form used for every other tug. There is no price on this page.