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This year marks the 40th anniversary of the prototypical business turboprop, the Beech King Air. The airplane, to our knowledge, is the longest continuously produced civilian turbine aircraft. (The Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules is the only turbine aircraft that has been continuously produced for longer.) It was in August of 1963 that Beech Aircraft announced […]

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It may be hard not to think of “Pratt & Whitney PT-6” when one thinks of the remarkably successful “Cessna Caravan,” but Alaskan aircraft mod shop Aero Twin hopes that in time it can change that perception with its 850 Caravan conversion, which it expects to have STC’d around the time that you read this. […]

While much of the aviation world these past few years has been focusing on a couple of high profile start-up companies looking to certify and produce light business jets, one of the richest companies in the world has been busy behind the scenes doing the exact same thing. It has not been a particularly well-kept […]

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