Beechcraft King Air C90GTx
The entry King Air: PT6A-135A engines flat-rated to 550 shp, composite winglets and a pressurised cabin. Rugged gear lets it use short gravel strips, and many owner-pilots step up to it from piston twins.
Performance
- Cruise speed
- 272 kt
- Max operating speed (VMO)
- 226 kt
- Range
- 1,127 nm
- Service ceiling
- 30,000 ft
- Rate of climb
- 1,900 ft/min
Fuel
- Fuel type
- Jet A-1 · Jet A
- Usable fuel
- 1,160 kg
- Total capacity
- 1,160 kg
- Nacelle tanks
- 2 × 185 kg
- Wing tanks
- 2 × 397 kg
Turbine fuel is shown as mass, at a typical 0.80 kg/l, the way crews plan it.
Runway
- Minimum runway
- 640 m
- Take-off distance over 15 m (50 ft)
- 605 m
- Landing distance from 15 m (50 ft)
- 640 m
- Usable surfaces
- Asphalt · Concrete · Grass · Gravel
The longer of take-off and landing distance. At 4,756 kg, ISA, sea level, dry paved runway, no wind.
Cockpit and systems
- Cockpit
- Glass cockpit
- Avionics
- Collins Pro Line 21 (later airframes: Pro Line Fusion)
- Systems
- Autopilot · Pressurised cabin · Retractable gear · Constant-speed propeller · TCAS collision avoidance · Terrain warning (TAWS)
Weights and capacity
- Max passengers
- 9
- Minimum crew
- 1
- Cockpit seats
- 2
- Max take-off weight (MTOW)
- 4,756 kg
- Max landing weight
- 4,460 kg
- Empty weight
- 3,295 kg
Licence and training
- Licences that cover it
- PPL(A) · CPL(A) · ATPL(A)
- Type rating required
- BE90/99/100/200
- Extra training or endorsements
- Turbine engine · Pressurised cabin · High-performance aircraft theory (HPA)
EASA terms. Other authorities name and split ratings differently.
Flight rules and approvals
- Flight rules
- Certified for IFR
- Approvals
- Night VFR · Known icing (FIKI)
Assumes the usual equipment. The aircraft's own documents decide what it may fly.
Type
- Manufacturer
- Beechcraft
- Category
- Aeroplane
- Engines
- 2× Turboprop
- ICAO type designator
- BE9L
- Wake turbulence category
- L · Light
- In service since
- 2010
- Microsoft Flight Simulator
- 2024
Scale drawing
- Length
- 10.82 m
- Wingspan
- 16.36 m
- Height
- 4.34 m
- Fuselage width
- 1.5 m
- Propeller diameter
- 2.29 m
Drawn to scale from the published length, span and height; finer shapes are approximate.
Size comparison
- Beechcraft King Air C90GTxLength 10.82 m
- Dornier Seawings Seastar CD2Length 12.7 m
All drawn at one scale. The person is 1.8 m tall.
Speeds
- VSOStall, landing configurationStall speed with gear and full flaps down. Bottom of the white arc.
- 75 kt
- VAManoeuvring speedBelow it, a full control deflection will not overstress the airframe (at maximum weight).
- 169 kt
- VFEMax flaps extendedHighest speed with flaps down. Top of the white arc.
- 140 kt
- VLEMax gear extendedHighest speed with the landing gear down.
- 182 kt
- VMOMax operating speedSpeed limit of a turbine aircraft in knots; higher up, the Mach limit (MMO) applies instead.
- 226 kt
Typical published values for the named variant, for learning only. Always fly with the aircraft's own flight manual (POH/AFM).
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