The Turbine Pilot edition includes all of the stories in AOPA Pilot, plus a few additional articles written specifically for pilots and owners of turbine-powered aircraft. If you fly a turbine aircraft, or will transition into one in the near future, call Member Services at 800-USA-AOPA for more information.
Beechcraft King Airs have had a firm hold on the twin turboprop market ever since the first of the brand debuted in 1964. With total sales topping 6,500 airplanes, King Airs continue to dominate, with the biggest, top-of-the-line King Air 350 series holding onto a lucrative niche.
With the market the way it is right now, we’ve seen a huge uptick in the number of people looking to get financing on airplanes that have 9,000, 10,000, even 13,000 hours on their airframes. Normally buyers don’t even look at these airplanes, but because that’s what’s available, that’s what they’re settling on.
It’s a foggy Monday morning on Nantucket, and while the weekend on the beaches was right out of a tourism ad campaign, work calls and you really need to get back to the office.
In this installment of AOPA Pilot, Turbine Edition, Senior Content Producer Ian J. Twombly gives us a feature article on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) (“Waste, Not Watts”).