Cessna 425 Conquest I

The Cessna 425, first sold as the Corsair and later renamed the Conquest I, is an eight-seat American pressurized turboprop light twin that Cessna built in Wichita, Kansas, between 1980 and 1986. It was derived from the Cessna 421 and powered by two 450 horsepower Pratt and Whitney Canada PT6 engines, and Cessna introduced it as a competitor to the Beechcraft King Air. Cessna priced the pressurized twin turboprop at 875,000 dollars and claimed that it flew 15 to 20 knots faster than the King Air C90 while burning 15 percent less fuel. Customer demand for more cabin space and a higher maximum takeoff weight turned the Corsair into the Conquest I, and the Cessna 441, which had previously been called the Conquest, was renamed the Conquest II. Falling general aviation sales ended production in 1986.