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The Saunders ST-27 regional airliner was built in the 1970s by the Canadian Saunders Aircraft Company in Gimli Manitoba Designed as a conversion of the earlier de Havilland Heron the ST-27 was the most radical DH Heron conversion program featuring two Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 turboprops and a stretched fuselage. Despite its promise as a regional airliner the project collapsed when Manitoba government funding was withdrawn.