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In the official ICAO database 5 aircraft are marked with an engine count C. What is that supposed to mean? Normally engine count is a number (0,1,2,3...).

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I don't know the exact ICAO phraseology, but it certainly seems to describe an aircraft that has two engines combined to a single driveshaft.

Soloy has trademarked the 'Dual Pac', a pair of turboprops driving a single shaft through a gearbox. All of the Soloy aircraft there use this powerplant.

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The Fairey Gannet was a (super cool) anti-submarine aircraft designed in the late 40s. It was powered by the Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba which you could argue was the direct predecessor of the Dual Pac, albeit using a presumably very different gearbox to drive the contra-rotating prop. One half of the Double Mamba could be shut down in flight, and both props would continue to be driven:

The Double Mamba engine could be run with one Mamba stopped to conserve fuel and extend endurance for cruise flight. The contra-rotating propellers meant that when only half of the Double Mamba was running there were no thrust asymmetry problems.

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