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A King Air B200 of No. 45 Squadron Royal Air Force
Role	Civil utility aircraft
Manufacturer	Beechcraft
First flight	October 27, 1972
Introduction	1972 (military)February 1974 (civil)
Status	Active service
Primary users	United States Air Force United States Army Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia Royal Australian Air Force
Produced	1972–present
Number built	3,781 at end of 2015
Developed from	Beechcraft King Air
Variants	Beechcraft C-12 Huron Beechcraft 1900

The Beechcraft Super King Air family is part of a line of twin-turboprop aircraft produced by Beechcraft. The Model 200 and Model 300 series were originally marketed as the "Super King Air" family; the "Super" designation was dropped in 1996. They form the King Air line together with the King Air Model 90 and 100 series. Beechcraft currently offers the 250 (design. B200GT) and the larger 350i (B300) models. The 350ER (B300CER) is available to government, military and commercial customers for special mission operations such as aerial survey, air ambulance, flight inspection and surveillance. The Beechcraft 1900 regional airliner was derived from the Model B200 King Air

The Super King Air family has been in continuous production since 1974, the longest production run of any civilian turboprop aircraft in its class. It outlasted all of its previous competitors, and even its intended replacement, the Model 2000 Starship. The only other pressurized multiengine turboprop utility aircraft now in production is the Piaggio P.180 Avanti.

Development

Super King Air 200

The Model 200 was originally conceived as the Model 101 in 1969, and was a development of the Model 100 King Air. The Model 200 had essentially the same fuselage as the Model 100, with changes to the rear fuselage to accommodate a new T-tail (in place of the 100's conventional tail with all-moving trimmable horizontal stabilizer) and structural changes to allow higher maximum pressurization. Apart from the T-tail, other changes included Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-41 engines rated at 850 shp (630 kW) instead of the 680 shp (510 kW) engines of the Model A100 then in production, and a wing of increased span and extra fuel capacity. Overall, the 200 was 3 ft 10 in (1.17 m) longer than the A100, with wingspan 4 ft 3 in (1.29 m) greater, containing 60 US gallons (230 L) more fuel.^[ Maximum Take-Off Weight (MTOW) was increased by 1,000 lb (450 kg).

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General Info

Crew	1–2
Capacity	10
Length	43 ft 10 in / 13.36 m
Span	57 ft 11 in / 17.65 m
Height	14 ft 10 in / 4.52 m

Powerplant

Engine type (2×)	PWC PT6A-52
Power or thrust	850 shp / 625 kW

Performance

Maximum cruise	310 kt / 574 km/h
Ferry range	1,720 nm / 3,185 km
Takeoff	2,111 ft / 643 m
Ceiling	10,668 m

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Mission
The TC-12B Huron was a twin-engine, pressurized version of the Beechcraft Super King Air 200. Twenty-five served with the US Navy with Training Squadron 35 (VT-35), the US Navy's only TC-12B Huron squadron based at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas, home of the Training Air Wing 4 (TAW-4). The US Navy retired this aircraft on 16 May 2017 and replaced and now relies on the T-44C for multi engine training

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The T-6A has a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-68 turbo-prop engine that delivers 1,100 horsepower. Because of its excellent thrust-to-weight ratio, the aircraft can perform an initial climb of 3,100 feet (944.8 meters) per minute and can reach 18,000 feet (5,486.4 meters) in less than six minutes.

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