Aircraft model
TEXTRON AVIATION INC B200GT
Everything here is true of every aircraft of the type, not of any one aircraft.
The King Air B200GT under Textron Aviation: two 850 shp PT6A-52s that hold their power to a higher altitude than the B200's -42s, 310 knots, 35,000 feet and a pressurised cabin for nine passengers. The certificate designation has stayed B200GT while the marketing name has changed twice, and the name on the brochure is what tells a buyer which flight deck is fitted. The B200GT was certified in November 2007 with the Pro Line 21 panel. The King Air 250, certified in June 2011, added composite winglets, Hartzell composite scimitar propellers and a ram-air recovery system for better runway and climb performance, and from July 2015 it was built with the Collins Pro Line Fusion touchscreen flight deck in place of Pro Line 21. The King Air 260, announced in December 2020 and certified in March 2021, kept Fusion and added the IS&S ThrustSense autothrottle as standard, digital cabin-pressure control and multi-scan weather radar. So a Textron-era aircraft from 2014 is a 250 with Pro Line 21, a late-2015 to 2020 one a 250 with Fusion, and a 2021 or later one a 260 with autothrottle — and none of them has a Garmin panel.
The 200 series has been in continuous production since 1974, which is the strongest thing that can be said about any aircraft's support position. It stays at exactly 12,500 lb so it needs no type rating, it gets into runways a jet cannot use, and its resale has held up better than almost anything else in aviation. What a current one costs is several million dollars, and the running costs of two large PT6s and a hundred gallons an hour are what they have always been. Buyers pay for durability and support, not efficiency.
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What it is
| Seats | 11 |
|---|---|
| Landing gear | tricycle |
| Engines | 2 |
| Engine | Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-52 |
| Horsepower | 850 hp |
| Fuel | JetA |
| Certification basis | FAR23 |
| Production start | 2014 |
| Production end | current |
| Endorsements required | complex;high-performance;multi-engine;pressurized/high-altitude |
Performance
| Cruise speed | 310 KTAS |
|---|---|
| Range | 1,700 nm |
| Service ceiling | 35,000 ft |
| Climb rate | 2,450 ft/min |
| Stall speed (Vso) | 75 KCAS |
| Takeoff over 50 ft | — |
| Landing over 50 ft | — |
Load and fuel
| Seats | 11 |
|---|---|
| Useful load | 3,800 lb |
| Full-fuel payload | 155 lb |
| Max takeoff weight | 12,500 lb |
| Empty weight | 8,700 lb |
| Usable fuel | 544 gal |
| Fuel burn at cruise | 100 gal/h |
Cost of ownership
| Price, low | $2,500,000 |
|---|---|
| Price, high | $6,500,000 |
| Prices as of | 2026 |
| Engine TBO | 3,600 h |
| Overhaul cost, low | $500,000 |
| Overhaul cost, high | $730,000 |
The fleet and its record
| Registered, all time | 176 |
|---|---|
| Active fleet | 79 |
| Median year built | 2018.5 |
| NTSB events, last 10 years | 0 |
| Fatal events, last 10 years | 0 |
| Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years | 0 · thin base (low)1 |
| Personal-flying events per 1,000 active | 0 · thin base (low)2 |
| Ownership transfers, last 24 months | 17 |
| Transfers per 100 active | 21.52 · thin base (low)3 |
| Airworthiness directives | 10 |
| Directives, last 5 years | 1 |
| Rate confidence | low |
- Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 79 active.
- Personal-flying events per 1,000 active: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 79 active.
- Transfers per 100 active: per 100 active aircraft · base 79 active.
Peer scores6
| Peer class | Fixed wing multi-engine, turbo-prop, 2 engines, 7+ seats |
|---|---|
| Accident record | —1 |
| Severity | —2 |
| Access | —3 |
| Support | 7.6 of 104 |
| Liquidity | 3.8 of 105 |
- Accident record: class median 12.71 · 22 models in class.
- Severity: class median 29.17.
- Access: class median 7,501.5.
- Support: class median 51.
- Liquidity: class median 24.79.
- 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.