Beechcraft Super King Air

The Beechcraft Super King Air is the family of twin-turboprop aircraft made up of the Model 200 and Model 300 series, the larger and later half of the King Air line that Beechcraft builds alongside the smaller Model 90 and 100 King Airs. The Model 200 began as the Model 101 in 1969, a development of the Model 100 King Air, with a new T-tail, Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-41 engines and extra wing span and fuel capacity. Its first prototype flew on October 27, 1972, three production aircraft went to the United States Army as RU-21J, civil certification came in December 1973 and the first civil delivery followed in February 1974. The family has been in continuous production since 1974, the longest run of any civilian turboprop in its class, and the word Super was dropped from the name in 1996. It also gave rise to the Beechcraft 1900 airliner and the C-12 Huron military variants.