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N136MB parked at Goose Bay, Canada (CYYR) with a Royal Canadian Air Force aircraft taxiing in the background.
Below: South African pilot Byron Lutzke (left) and Casey (right).
There aren’t many King Air B100 aircraft in the world. I think it is one of the better King Air models, but others love the mighty 3XX, 2XX and the various 90 models. The little known B100 was designed and built in the mid-1970s when Beechcraft anticipated a Pratt & Whitney employee strike could impact the production of the venerable PT6 engines. That looming strike produced the B100, which I believe is viewed as the stepchild of the King Air family.
The B100 has fuel-efficient Garrett (Honeywell) TPE331-10 engines bolted onto the shortest wing ever mated to the larger fuselage used for King Air 200 and 300 models. It is the same wing found on the E90, which tells you how small it is. But, the differences don’t end there. Beechcraft also used a horizontal stabilizer trimmed by moving the entire stabilizer. If that’s not weird
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