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BEECH 200 Super King Air
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Name | 200 Super King Air | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manufacturer | BEECH | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Body | Narrow | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wing | Fixed Wing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Position | Low wing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tail | T-tail | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
WTC | Light | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
APC | B | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Type code | L2T | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Engine | Turboprop | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Engine count | Multi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Position | (Front) Wing leading mounted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Landing gear | Tricycle retractable | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mass group | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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BEECH 200 Super King Air
Description
Corporate, passenger and utility aircraft. In service since 1974. Exists in many versions. 200T/ 200CT with tip tanks, 200ES with Electronic Flight Instrument System features and 200S/B200S for navaid calibration and maritime patrol. This type has been taken over and is partly built by RAYTHEON, USA. US-Mil. type: C-12.
Technical Data
Wing span | 16.6 m54.462 ft <br /> |
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Length | 13.4 m43.963 ft <br /> |
Height | 4.5 m14.764 ft <br /> |
Powerplant | 2 x 850 SHP P&W PT6A-42 turboprops with 3 blade propellers. |
Engine model | Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 |
Performance Data
Take-Off | Initial Climb (to 5000 ft) |
Initial Climb (to FL150) |
Initial Climb (to FL240) |
MACH Climb | Cruise | Initial Descent (to FL240) |
Descent (to FL100) |
Descent (FL100 & below) |
Approach | ||||||||||
V2 (IAS) | 115 kts | IAS | 145 kts | IAS | 230 kts | IAS | 230 kts | MACH | TAS | 260 kts | MACH | IAS | 250 kts | IAS | kts | Vapp (IAS) | 100 kts | ||
Distance | 570 m | ROC | 2000 ft/min | ROC | 1000 ft/min | ROC | 1000 ft/min | ROC | ft/min | MACH | 0.48 | ROD | ft/min | ROD | 1500 ft/min | MCS | 110 kts | Distance | 540 m |
MTOW | 56705,670 kg <br />5.67 tonnes <br /> kg | Ceiling | FL350 | ROD | ft/min | APC | B | ||||||||||||
WTC | L | Range | 16001,600 nm <br />2,963,200 m <br />2,963.2 km <br />9,721,784.784 ft <br /> NM |
Accidents & Serious Incidents involving BE20
- BE20, Nadi Fiji, 2010 (On 25 April 2010, a Beech King Air touched down at Nadi with its landing gear in the transit position after flying a night approach during which a significant electrical system failure had occurred. The landing gear retracted and the aircraft left the runway to the side and came to a stop resting on its fuselage. The Investigation attributed the electrical failure, which directly affected the landing gear operating system and required two diodes to have both failed was likely to have meant that one would have failed on an earlier occasion with no apparent consequence.)
- BE20, vicinity Gallatin Field MT USA, 2007 (On February 6, 2007, a Beech 200 King Air, being operated by Metro Aviation on an EMS positioning flight from Great Falls MT to Gallatin Field MT, collided at night in VMC with mountainous terrain approximately 13 nm north-northwest of the intended destination shortly after advising that the airport was in sight and requesting and obtaining permission for a visual approach.)
- BE20, vicinity Gillam Canada, 2019 (On 24 April 2019, the engine of a Beech B200 en-route from Winnipeg to Churchill at FL 250 failed due to fuel exhaustion and the crew realised that they had forgotten to refuel before departure. An emergency was declared and a diversion to the nearest available airport was commenced but the right engine later failed for the same reason leaving them with no option but to land on a frozen lake surface. The Investigation concluded that confusion as to relative responsibility between the trainee Captain and the supervising pilot-in-command were central to the failure to refuel prior to departure as intended.)
- BE20, vicinity Glasgow UK, 2012 (On 15 September 2012, the crew of a Beech Super King Air on a medevac flight making an ILS approach to runway 23 at Glasgow became temporarily distracted by the consequences of a mis-selection made in an unfamiliar variant of their aircraft type and a rapid descent of more than 1000 feet below the 3500 feet cleared altitude towards terrain in IMC at night followed. An EGPWS ‘PULL UP’ Warning and ATC MSAW activation resulted before the aircraft was recovered back to 3500 feet and the remainder of the flight was uneventful.)
- BE20, vicinity North Caicos British West Indies, 2007 (On 6 February 2007, a Beech King Air 200 on a scheduled passenger flight crashed into water soon after making a dark night VMC take off and initial climb from North Caicos. The Investigation noted that the regulatory requirement for a crew of two pilots had been ignored and that the pilot had probably consumed alcohol within the permitted limits prior to the take off. It was concluded that he had probably lost spatial awareness and been in the process of attempting recovery to the originally intended flight path when impact occurred.)
- BE20, vicinity Stapleford UK, 2015 (On 3 October 2015, the pilot of a Beech Super King Air on a business flight lost control in IMC shortly after take-off and the aircraft subsequently impacted terrain at high speed. The Investigation concluded on the balance of probabilities that pilot medical incapacitation was likely to have occurred. It was noted that the aircraft had not been fitted with TAWS nor was it required to be but it was found that alerting from such a system would have increased the chances of the only passenger, another professional pilot, successfully taking over and three corresponding Safety Recommendations were made.)
- BE20/SF34, vicinity Stornoway UK, 2011 (On 31 December 2011 a USAF C12 Beech King Air descended 700 feet below the cleared outbound altitude on a procedural non precision approach to Stornoway in uncontrolled airspace in IMC and also failed to fly the procedure correctly. As a result it came into conflict with a Saab 340 inbound on the same procedure. The Investigation found that the C12 crew had interpreted the QNH given by ATC as 990 hPa as 29.90 inches, the subscale setting units used in the USA. The Saab 340 pilot saw the opposite direction traffic on TCAS and descended early to increase separation.)