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The average age of the current eet of 46 C-12 aircraft under the regulatory guidance of the U.S. Army Operational Support Airlift Activity is 32 years, with an average eet total time of 16,989 hours. Here, two C-12U aircraft sit on the ramp at Fort Lewis, Washington, with Mount Rainier in the background.
Army’s history with the King Air
The first C-12A Huron models entered service with the U.S. Army in 1974, according to Rich Roling, one of OSA-A’s standardization instructor pilots and a retired
Chief Warrant Officer 5 who has worked at OSA-A for more than 10 years. It took several years of acquisition to replace the Army’s aging fleet of King Air 90 aircraft designated U-21, which he said had first entered service for the Army in 1964.
The C-12 aircraft is essentially a Super King Air 200, powered by the type’s standard Pratt & Whitney PT6A-42 engines, with a commercial, off-the-shelf cargo floor system installed.
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