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Raisbeck Engineering, Inc. has provided performance improvements across the entire King Air product line, here, a King Air 200 with many of the company’s modifications.
“Mr. Raisbeck has made our aircraft faster, given the owners of our airplanes the usage of more airports through lowered calculated landing speeds, and provided the aircraft with more operational flexibility. A staggering percentage of our King Air fleet flies with Raisbeck modifications,” said a former Beechcraft sales executive. He added, “Mr. Raisbeck should be lauded for his work to improve the safety of the business aviation fleet,” and his “work in the area of stability and control has led to an easier aircraft to fly and less reliance on complicated systems to maintain controlled flight.”1
For more than 40 years Raisbeck Engineering, Inc. has provided performance improvements across the entire King Air product line, beginning in the early 1980s with the Model 200/B200 series King Air, and eventually filtering down to the Model 90 series and the C90GTX, as well as the Model 250 and 350. In terms of basic airframe design, the twin-engine turboprop Beechcrafts are similar to one another and have provided Raisbeck
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Engineering with opportunities to improve performance. These systems have made positive contributions to improving the King Air’s range, speed, access to airports, reducing operating costs, as well as improving the aesthetics of the airplane itself.
Raisbeck currently offers a wide range of upgrades that includes both aluminum and composite swept-blade propellers, known as the “Raisbeck Swept Blade Turbofan
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