Nathan Young wrote:

I seem to recall a Sport Aviation article about a Helio or similar
STOL plane converted to turbine. The owners put a lot of crazy
conversions onto the plane. For example, they had a train whistle
driven by bleed air from the engine, a sprayer/fogger system for
killing mosquitos in the area prior to landing, and tires that looked
to be from a 4x4 truck.

One hell of a back country airplane.

Last I read, they were removing most of that, except the turbine that
is... To get better cruise performance... Guess it was fun for awhile
and then became impractical for frequent usage...