In the world of aviation, precision and adherence to regulations are paramount. Whether you’re a seasoned King Air pilot or an owner-operator, understanding the nuances of logging pilot-in-command time and dual received hours is essential – not only for regulatory compliance but also for maintaining your insurance coverage. In this article I’m going to explore…
In June 2025, a Beechcraft King Air 360 lifted off from Fargo, North Dakota, bound for its new home in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. The ferry route spanned 6,800 nautical miles and two continents, requiring crossing the North Atlantic and overflying some of the harshest landscapes on Earth. For any ferry crew, this kind of trip…
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…