(June 2011) We’d just landed, taxied in and shut down the one-of-a-kind King Air 250 on the Atlantic FBO ramp at my home airport of Austin Bergstrom. We’d made our fuel order, closed up the big airstair door and started into the FBO when my flying buddy, Hawker Beechcraft’s Mark Mohler, spotted a pretty King Air 200 on the ramp. Mark’s been flying these airplanes for a while and knows a thing or a thousand about them, so I asked just out of curiosity what vintage it was. With a new paint job, a pair of Raisbeck wing lockers and that same company’s dual ventral fin mod, the airplane looked nearly new.
“There’s one sure way to tell,” Mohler told me as he ambled over to the rear left side of the airplane, “the data plate.”
