King Air B200 charter

The King Air B200

Nine seats, pressurised and air-conditioned, on twin Pratt & Whitney PT6A-42 turboprops — and able to work off gravel and compacted earth with baggage still on board. It is the aircraft we put against contract rotations, tour and expedition support, and remote charter, because it reaches places most alternatives cannot.

Based at our 2,500 square metre hangar at Archerfield Airport, Brisbane.

Strips, not just airports

Most resource-sector and government work does not finish at a certified aerodrome. It finishes at an ALA — and that is where a jet stops being an option at any price.

What decides whether we can take your strip:

• Length, at the weight we need to carry
• Surface and width
• Obstacle clearance on both approaches
• Whether it stays useable after rain

Send us the strip and we will assess it. If it is marginal you will hear that from us before the contract, not from a crew on the day.

Length at weight, surface and obstacle clearance decide whether the strip is useable — not the map.

Payload against sector length

The trade is always fuel against seats, and nine seats with full tanks is rarely the same flight. Nine on board is about 600 nautical miles. Six on board is about 1,200.

• A long sector into a strip with no refuelling means carrying the return fuel, and that comes straight out of payload
• Short multi-leg days with fuel available en route let you fill the cabin

Give us the sectors and the passenger numbers and we will tell you which of those you are in, before you build a schedule around the wrong one.

Cabin, baggage and the working day

Pressurised means the aircraft climbs over weather rather than picking through it — the difference between a rotation that runs and one that gets cancelled. Air-conditioned matters more than people expect at a Queensland site in February.

Nose and aft baggage means crew-change bags, tooling and freight do not have to come out of the cabin. For a nine-seat crew change with kit, that is the whole argument.

When a jet is the better answer

We would rather lose a booking than sell you the wrong aircraft. If your strip is sealed and the sector is long, a light or midsize jet will be faster and no capability is given up. We have Citations and Phenoms on line for exactly that, and we will say so when it applies.

The B200 earns its place where the strip is unsealed, the payload is real, or the day involves several legs into country a jet cannot use.

What it flies for us

• Contract and government rotations — FIFO, essential services and tasking, held against a programme
• Tour and expedition support — aircraft and crew supplied to tour operators across remote Australia
• Time-critical freight — where the cabin and the baggage bays both earn their keep
• Corporate and group charter — regional sectors where a jet cannot land

Every flight is conducted under an Air Operator’s Certificate. Our aircraft are maintained by CAR 30 and CASR Part 145 approved organisations, depending on the aircraft, under an elected system of maintenance.