Aircraft model
BEECH E-90
Everything here is true of every aircraft of the type, not of any one aircraft.
The King Air E90 is the 90-series airframe with the more powerful PT6A-28 engines, giving 250 knots and a genuine 1,400-mile range. It carries six to eight passengers in a pressurised cabin and will operate from short and rough runways, which is the combination that has kept King Airs in service for sixty years.
It sits between the C90 and the F90 in capability and price. Costs are turbine costs: two PT6s with hot sections and eventual overhauls in six figures each, around 95 gallons an hour of Jet-A, pressurisation, deice boots and a cabin-class annual. An aircraft of this age will also need avionics investment to remain legal in current airspace. Below 12,500 lb no type rating is required, though every insurer demands formal initial and annual recurrent simulator training.
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What it is
| Seats | 8 |
|---|---|
| Landing gear | tricycle |
| Engines | 2 |
| Engine | Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-28 |
| Horsepower | 680 hp |
| Fuel | JetA |
| Certification basis | CAR3 |
| Production start | 1972 |
| Production end | 1981 |
| Endorsements required | complex;high-performance;multi-engine;pressurized/high-altitude |
Performance
| Cruise speed | 250 KTAS |
|---|---|
| Range | 1,400 nm |
| Service ceiling | 27,620 ft |
| Climb rate | 1,870 ft/min |
| Stall speed (Vso) | 78 KCAS |
| Takeoff over 50 ft | 2,030 ft |
| Landing over 50 ft | 2,300 ft |
Load and fuel
| Seats | 8 |
|---|---|
| Useful load | 3,850 lb |
| Full-fuel payload | 1,277 lb |
| Max takeoff weight | 10,100 lb |
| Empty weight | 6,250 lb |
| Usable fuel | 384 gal |
| Fuel burn at cruise | 95 gal/h |
Cost of ownership
| Price, low | $600,000 |
|---|---|
| Price, high | $1,100,000 |
| Prices as of | 2026 |
| Engine TBO | 3,600 h |
| Overhaul cost, low | $340,000 |
| Overhaul cost, high | $520,000 |
The fleet and its record
| Registered, all time | 311 |
|---|---|
| Active fleet | 145 |
| Median year built | 1976.0 |
| NTSB events, last 10 years | 9 |
| Fatal events, last 10 years | 5 |
| Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years | 62.071 |
| Personal-flying events per 1,000 active | 13.792 |
| Ownership transfers, last 24 months | 35 |
| Transfers per 100 active | 24.143 |
| Airworthiness directives | 7 |
| Directives, last 5 years | 0 |
| Rate confidence | ok |
- Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 145 active.
- Personal-flying events per 1,000 active: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 145 active.
- Transfers per 100 active: per 100 active aircraft · base 145 active.
Peer scores6
| Peer class | Fixed wing multi-engine, turbo-prop, 2 engines, 7+ seats |
|---|---|
| Accident record | 1.7 of 10 · scored on 21 years of events (fewer than 10 in the last 10)1 |
| Severity | 3.6 of 10 · scored on 21 years of events (fewer than 10 in the last 10)2 |
| Access | 5.5 of 103 |
| Support | 7.6 of 104 |
| Liquidity | 6.1 of 105 |
| Overall (sum of the categories shown) | 24.5 out of 506 |
- Accident record: class median 13.13 · 24 models in class.
- Severity: class median 31.67.
- Access: class median 5,500.
- Support: class median 59.
- 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.