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about 450 nm morphed into often having eight-plus people and bags on longer trips.
“Had we bought any other airplane, we would have needed to move up but the King Air fleet is so adaptable that we just load up more people and go,” he says. “Since we have the two King Airs, sometimes we’ll take both when we’ve got a larger number of people that need to travel.”
Casey Aviation also completes a number of King Air ferry flights, including about 10-15 internationally
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each year. In 2019, Casey said they landed at 29 different countries on trips to India, the South Pacific, Africa, China, South America and Europe. These trips usually provide a variety of special operating conditions.
“We endure everything Mother Nature throws at us, oftentimes on the same trip.” Discussing a specific journey ferrying a King Air, he recalls, “We’ve taken off from Saudi Arabia in above 125 degrees Fahrenheit temps, flown an ILS into Iceland with howling winds and battled some serious ice in
Canada, and the King Air performs with ease.”
Casey has flown every variant of the King Air Model 90, 100, 200, 300 and 350 and says the King Air 300 “is simply my favorite airplane in the world.” Casey Aviation employee Deanna Wallace, who also flies the managed King Airs, as well as ferries them, agrees, “The 300/350 series is my favorite, as I have found very little it can’t do, but I have grown a certain fondness for the stepchild of the family, the B100, since flying it the past two years,” she says.
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