Of course it had to be over priced to pay for all the overheads, shareholders of a large company, the price counted on using the plane as tax write off to ease the sting. That is the reason Textron lost interest in smaller planes and long ago tunnel visioned on larger planes with turbines. Lately, many of the planes got paper improvements or those done by lawyers only, there are little difference buying one that are several years old. The trend is to buy single engine like the PC 12, (I wondered is the Denali still born and just waiting for them to get the nerve to announce it?? I wanted to be wrong in this) less maintenance cost and the same payload and performance. The King Air needed decades of incremental improvements to made it a success as it is today, by a much smaller Beechcraft company, I doubt if it was a big company they be willing to pour that much effort into a long range goal. It would have gone the way of the Corvalis , 400 or what ever you call it. Textron would be hard pressed to repeat what Cessna did when it was a far smaller company. Too many American executives with short sighted vision that can only see from quarter to quarter.
I bought this plane 5 years ago
Nice❤
Next buy🗿
Of course it had to be over priced to pay for all the overheads, shareholders of a large company, the price counted on using the plane as tax write off to ease the sting. That is the reason Textron lost interest in smaller planes and long ago tunnel visioned on larger planes with turbines. Lately, many of the planes got paper improvements or those done by lawyers only, there are little difference buying one that are several years old. The trend is to buy single engine like the PC 12, (I wondered is the Denali still born and just waiting for them to get the nerve to announce it?? I wanted to be wrong in this) less maintenance cost and the same payload and performance. The King Air needed decades of incremental improvements to made it a success as it is today, by a much smaller Beechcraft company, I doubt if it was a big company they be willing to pour that much effort into a long range goal. It would have gone the way of the Corvalis , 400 or what ever you call it. Textron would be hard pressed to repeat what Cessna did when it was a far smaller company. Too many American executives with short sighted vision that can only see from quarter to quarter.