Beechcraft aircraft are saving lives in Peru. The government recently expanded its emergency response capabilities with a second Beechcraft King Air 360C air ambulance, equipped with vital sign monitors, incubators, stretchers and cold chain systems for organ transport. Since October 2024, more than 100 Peruvian Air Force aeromedical flights have evacuated over 145 critically ill…
Originally published in 2010 by Mary Lynn Oliver, the youngest daughter of Walter and Olive Ann Beech, the book “The Barnstormer and The Lady” chronicling the personal lives of the aviation pioneers has been out of print for a decade. Mary Lynn’s daughter, Jennifer Pitt, has updated the first edition and reprinted a 15th anniversary…
On July 4, 2025, President Donald Trump signed into law comprehensive tax-and-spending legislation that the White House dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill.” Among the included policies was reinstating 100% bonus depreciation for qualified business aircraft acquisitions retroactive to Jan. 20, 2025. The 100% bonus depreciation provision allows businesses to purchase capital equipment, including aircraft,…
News Roundup from NBAA-BACE Here’s a recap of news releases issued during the 2025 NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition held in mid-October in Las Vegas. King Air to Receive Next-Generation Fuel Quantity Indication System Raisbeck Engineering, Inc. and CiES Inc. announced a new agreement to bring a modern, highly reliable fuel quantity indication system…
FAA Airworthiness Directive 2025-20-11: Rudder Control System Effective date: Oct. 17, 2025 Applicability: Model B200GT S/Ns BY-335, BY-356, BY-443, BY-453, BY-454; Model B200CGT S/Ns BZ-4 through BZ-9; Model B300 S/Ns FL-1173 through FL-1175 inclusive, FL-1177, FL-1181, FL-1184 through FL-1186 inclusive, FL-1189, FL-1193, FL-1197 through FL-1202 inclusive, FL-1210, FL-1211, FL-1213, FL-1218, FL-1220 through FL-1222 inclusive, FL-1225,…
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…
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.…