Used Aircraft Report: Beech King Air B100

Credit: Textron Aviation
The King Air B100, a limited production model built from 1976 to 1983 and powered by TPE331 turboprops, was borne out of necessity. A strike at Pratt & Whitney Canada in the mid-1970s stopped deliveries of PT-6A engines for its King Airs, so Beech was compelled to look for other engines. Thus it...
Fred George

Fred formerly was senior editor and chief pilot with Business & Commercial Aviation and Aviation Week's chief aircraft evaluation pilot. He has flown left seat in virtually every turbine-powered business jet produced in the past three decades.

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