Beechcraft
King Air 90-series lineage
The King Air 90 family introduced Beechcraft’s pressurized twin-turboprop business aircraft concept. These relatively compact King Airs offered a step up from piston twins while retaining access to smaller airports, with successive versions changing engines, weights, avionics and passenger equipment.
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Aircraft profile
Development and lineage
- Manufacturer
- Beechcraft
- Family
- King Air 90
- Aircraft category
- Business Turboprop
- Propulsion
- Turboprop
Aliases and related designations
Model 90A90B90C90C90AC90BC90GTC90GTiC90GTx
Aircraft data
Key specifications
- PAX
- 7 maximum
- Crew
- 1–2
- Range
- 1,321 nm
- Max cruise speed
- 270 kt
- Max ceiling
- 30,000 ft
- Engines
- 2 × Pratt & Whitney Canada turboprops
- Engine model
- PT6A-135A
- MTOW
- 10,100 lb
- Overall length
- 35 ft 6 in
- Wingspan
- 50 ft 3 in
- Height
- 14 ft 3 in
- Power
- 550 shp each
Overview
Program history
The original Model 90 flew in 1964 and began customer deliveries that year. It established the basic combination of a cabin-class fuselage and two PT6 turboprops, from which Beechcraft developed the larger 100, 200 and 300 branches. This family profile covers that lineage rather than one standardized aircraft configuration.