Recently, I’ve had wing bolts on the brain. I got wind of a King Air 200 getting a five-year wing bolt inspection that didn’t end up being the routine maintenance activity it should have been. On reinstallation, the technician installed the nut backward and torqued it down. He did this on both sides and damaged…
Your airplane just came out of maintenance. You picked the best, most qualified shop to do the work, and now you’re excited to get in the air again. You jump in, fire up and launch into the sky. Then you realize something is not quite right. Unfortunately, this happens all too often. Picking up an…
Corporate Angel Network Expands to Include King Airs The nonprofit started in 1981 with a King Air flight In 1981, Leonard Greene donated use of his company’s Beechcraft King Air to transport an 18-year-old patient back home to Detroit for Christmas after receiving treatment at New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Greene was the…
Today’s haunted attractions are not your grandparents’ idea of scary. Anyone of a certain age remembers the haunted houses when we were kids, usually organized as a fundraiser by a local community group. Haunted attractions today are big business. We’re not talking standard jump-scare attractions; the top-tier mega haunts are full-scale productions with intricate costuming,…
EAA’s Young Eagles Aims for 2.5 Million Introductory Flights The Experimental Aircraft Association’s Young Eagles program, which over three decades has become the largest youth aviation education program, is focusing its efforts on reaching 2.5 million Young Eagles flown by the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh fly-in convention in July 2026. “From those first Young Eagle flights…
Industry organizations join Textron Aviation in inviting King Air operators to participate in the Special Olympics Airlift happening in June 2026. During the industry’s Experimental Aircraft Association AirVenture fly-in convention in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, leading general aviation organizations – including EAA and the General Aviation Manufacturers Association – announced their collective support and endorsement of the…
A Part 91 operator in Texas offers a performance report since upgrading to MT-Propeller’s 7-blade Whisper Prop system. In April, King Air magazine highlighted that MT-Propeller Entwicklung GmbH received supplemental type certificate approval for the 7-blade Whisper Prop system on King Air 300 series aircraft. The upgrade is distributed by BLR Aerospace LLC, and as…
We have all been to some sort of training class as a pilot. In these classes we have been shown the limitation section of the pilot operating handbook (POH), otherwise known as the aircraft flight manual (AFM). After the books have been closed and class is over, it is very easy for us to never…
Some people told Sean Mickler he was crazy for investing the money and time needed to transform a 35-year-old Beechcraft King Air into the perfect transport for business and personal missions. Now that he’s done it, yeah, he agrees he was nuts and admits he probably wouldn’t have done it knowing what he knows now.…
Blackhawk Awaiting Approval for Latest King Air 350 Engine/Prop STC The Blackhawk Group announced at EAA AirVenture in late July that it has submitted all flight test data to the Federal Aviation Administration and is awaiting supplemental type certificate approval for the integration of Hartzell Propeller’s 5-blade composite propeller with Blackhawk’s XP67A Engine+ upgrade for…