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Otis Eastern Service updated the cabin interior of its 2002 King Air 200 by changing out dark leather and carpeting for a lighter color scheme. They also improved seat padding and sound proofing.
“In addition, our project locations were more spread out than ever before,” Joyce said. “Our management team needs to be on-site on a regular basis, so we needed a reliable airplane that could get us there.”
Joyce consulted with Terrasi, the charter business owner and a pilot with more than 23,000 hours. They quickly settled on the King Air 200 as the right airplane.
“The 200 is a plane that you can afford to operate,” Terrasi said. “It has a lot of utility. It’ll do a lot of work for you at a reasonable cost. We found a nice low-time plane – less than 2,000 hours – with a good history.”
Otis Eastern purchased the airplane in 2015 and employs pilot Scott Davis. Terrasi flies for the Joyces when needed, and he manages the company’s King Air.
The 2002 model Otis Eastern pur- chased had been used in a part 135 operation making regular flights from Florida to the Bahamas. It had wing lockers and jump seats already installed, giving the company the capability of hauling tooling to job sites and transporting as many as nine passengers.
While they started flying the King Air 200 immediately, they’ve made extensive modifications over the past three years. They hired Stevens Aviation in Dayton, Ohio, to install an all-new, state-of-the-art Garmin glass panel avionics system with synthetic vision and XM satellite radio. Stevens
also installed winglets.
“The winglets look nice, and they make the ride a little better, a little more stable,” Terrasi said. “It might
Otis Eastern Service upgraded to this glass-panel Garmin avionics system with synthetic vision and XM satellite radio.
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