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The Birth of the Demon Project
“The inspiration behind the King Air Demon Project came from wanting to highlight King Air as the muscle car of the aviation world,” said Carl Davis, vice president of King Air Nation (KAN), a company that specializes in parts, engines and aircraft sales, and is also host of the King Air Gathering. “We saw the opportunity to be creative with an aircraft that would perform superbly and captivate the imagination of anyone who sees it.”
“We saw the opportunity to be creative with an aircraft that would perform superbly and captivate the imagination of anyone who sees it.”
King Air Nation purchased the 1981 B200 from Haven Aviation Services Group in 2023. The team at Haven ASG installed BLR winglets and Raisbeck’s 200 Series EPIC Platinum Performance Package before the aircraft left the Amarillo, Texas, facility. The Raisbeck modifications included leading edges, crown wing lockers, main landing gear doors and four-blade swept propellers.
“As soon as Carl told us what he needed an aircraft for, we were all in on the project,” said Travis Lamance, CEO of Haven ASG. “Carl and the team at KAN are so fun to work with and the process of acquiring the right aircraft and the subsequent process of accomplishing the long list of modifications was great. Our maintenance mods team did an outstanding job of fitting the BLR winglets and all the Raisbeck modifications. The coordination and communication between KAN, BLR, Raisbeck and the Haven team was top-shelf, which always makes for a very exciting and fun project ... It’s not often that a special project like this comes along and we could not have been happier to play a part in the birth of the King Air Demon.”
While the aircraft was receiving the upgrades and mods via Haven ASG, the design concepts began back at
KAN headquarters in Brandon, Mississippi. King Air Nation embarked on the visionary project with a clear objective in mind: to create a King Air as stunning and captivating as the Dodge Demon, inside and out.
David Johnson, marketing director at King Air Nation, said the project had ambitious creative needs, from the initial task of creating countless design renderings for the paint shop to hours devoted to perfecting the smallest details. “We even went as far as hiring an interior designer to conceptualize the aircraft’s interior, which turned out to be outstanding,” Johnson said.
“... It’s not often that a special project like this comes along and we could not have been happier to play a part in the birth of the King Air Demon.”
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