Max Cruise 301 knots / 346 mph / 557 km/h Range 1,149 nmi (advertised) / 1,852 nmi (at max cruise according to Flying Mag) The title of fastest propeller-driven (but not exclusively) aircraft ever ...

As early as the 1940s, U.S. aircraft were experimenting with jet engines, threatening to make the propeller-driven aircraft a relic of the past. By the 1950s, the jet engine was essentially the ...