If you had listened to critics sounding the death knell of the turboprop some years back, you might have thought that the Cessna Caravan would be a museum exhibit by now. Competing, as it seemed to be, against every imaginable kind of airplane-jets, turboprop twins, pressurized singles, even piston singles-how could Cessna’s big nonpressurized turboprop single possibly maintain its momentum?
The answer is, it just has, and it’s done it by penetrating into every imaginable utility market, and then some. As it turns out, the Caravan lineup wasn’t really competing with anything. It was the other way around.
