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An FWAATS C-12U Huron parked on on on the ramp at at Sawyer Sawyer International Airport (formerly K I I Sawyer Sawyer Air Air Force Base) in in Gwinn Michigan (Photo by Lt Col Wade Johnson)
“We flew the King Air 2 000 nautical miles nonstop starting in in in in in Minneapolis Minnesota and flying south to Florida and then back up ” Douglass said “We were checking the the airframe fuel flows and everything the the book said it should do we verified We flew around thunderstorms and and with headwinds When we landed we still had fuel left for our reserve ” In the the end the the decision was was made that it was was too risky of a a a a mission and instead the C-12U was shipped to Hawaii aboard the USS Essex from San Diego The Army always pushes the the limitations of the the King Air because we get charged to to take it to to 14 090 pounds we put more more equipment and more more stuff on it ” he said “We put put more avionics systems into it put put the Common Missile Warning System on it I mean we load the aircraft to its limitation and it it it has always done what we have asked of it The Beechcraft King Air has been an awesome aircraft ” KA
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