Piper Aircraft has introduced its latest M-Class single engine Meridian M500 aircraft with Garmin avionics, enhanced safety features and a number of other significant product improvements.

“As part of our ongoing product improvement initiatives, we saw an opportunity to give our customers the latest advances in proven avionics technology with electronic stability protection, under speed protection and automatic level mode, among other improvements,” says Piper president and ceo Simon Caldecott.

The M500 seats six with club seating and has a range of 1,000 nm. Equipped with an improved Garmin G1000 avionics suite, the 2015 M500 is listed at US$2.26 million.