Beechcraft 300LW
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The Super King Air 300 is the 200-series airframe with the 1,050 shp PT6A-60A engines that later went into the 350. It cruises at 290 knots with 1,700 nautical miles of range and carries eight or nine passengers, and it was the fastest King Air until the 350 arrived.
The important difference from a B200 is regulatory: at 14,000 lb maximum takeoff weight the 300 requires a BE-300 type rating, where the 12,500 lb B200 does not. That is a materially higher training and currency burden and changes who can legally fly it. Operating costs rise in proportion — two larger PT6s, around 115 gallons an hour, a cabin-class annual and two pilots in nearly all operations. Only a few hundred were built before the 350 replaced it, so the fleet is smaller than the 200 series.
Variants of the Beechcraft King Air 300 / 350
- 300 · 1984 · 126 active
- 300LW · 1984 · 6 active · this page
- B300 · 1990 · 233 active
- B300C · 1990 · 35 active
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What it is
| Seats | 11 |
|---|---|
| Landing gear | tricycle |
| Engines | 2 |
| Engine | Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-60A |
| Horsepower | 1,050 hp |
| Fuel | JetA |
| Certification basis | FAR23 |
| Production start | 1984 |
| Production end | 1990 |
| Endorsements required | multi-engine |
Performance
| Cruise speed | 290 KTAS |
|---|---|
| Range | 1,700 nm |
| Service ceiling | 35,000 ft |
| Climb rate | 2,748 ft/min |
| Stall speed (Vso) | 80 KCAS |
| Takeoff over 50 ft | 3,000 ft |
| Landing over 50 ft | 2,600 ft |
Load and fuel
| Seats | 11 |
|---|---|
| Useful load | 3,700 lb |
| Full-fuel payload | 89 lb |
| Max takeoff weight | 12,500 lb |
| Empty weight | 8,800 lb |
| Usable fuel | 539 gal |
| Fuel burn at cruise | 115 gal/h |
Cost of ownership
| Price, low | $1,500,000 |
|---|---|
| Price, high | $2,500,000 |
| Prices as of | 2026 |
| Engine TBO | 3,600 h |
| Overhaul cost, low | $520,000 |
| Overhaul cost, high | $780,000 |
The fleet and its record
| Registered, all time | 12 |
|---|---|
| Active fleet | 6 |
| Median year built | 1989.0 |
| NTSB events, last 10 years | 0 |
| Fatal events, last 10 years | 0 |
| Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years | — |
| Personal-flying events per 1,000 active | — |
| Ownership transfers, last 24 months | 0 |
| Transfers per 100 active | — |
| Airworthiness directives | 5 |
| Directives, last 5 years | 1 |
| Rate confidence | none |
Peer scores6
| Peer class | Fixed wing multi-engine, turbo-prop, 2 engines, 7+ seats |
|---|---|
| Accident record | —1 |
| Severity | —2 |
| Access | —3 |
| Support | 2.3 of 104 |
| Liquidity | —5 |
- Accident record: class median 13.13 · 24 models in class.
- Severity: class median 31.67.
- Access: class median 5,500.
- Support: class median 56.5.
- Liquidity: class median 22.37.
- Each of the five categories places the model within its peer class, from 0 (the worst of the class) to 10 (the best): a position among comparable models, not a grade. The overall score is the sum of the categories shown that are scored, out of 10 for each (50 when all five are); it is given only when at least 4 of the five are scored, and it can be set against another model's only when both are in the same peer class and scored on the same categories. When accident record and severity cannot be scored because the model has too few records, the other three give a partial score out of 30, labelled as such; it is never set against a full score.
Data as of: FAA registry Sep 28 · NTSB Oct 2 · ADs Oct 6 · scores Sep 30