Airlines parking Becch 1900's

[B. Rubble]

A few overseas operators utilize the C model.

Falcon Express Cargo Airlines based out of Dubai, U.A.E.
has scheduled runs throughout the Persian Gulf, including
Iraq for the armed forces.http://www.af.mil/stories/123005068.shtml

 

[B190Captain]

We are at 193 lbs. per pax no matter male or female, winter or summer. Bags are at 30 lbs per bag that is placed in the aft cargo even if carry-on.

We bump bags on a daily basis, sometimes passengers.

 

[414Flyer]

Hmm that news link mentioned the Beech having a 3 person crew including a flight engineer

 

[propjockey]

We are at 193 lbs. per pax no matter male or female, winter or summer. Bags are at 30 lbs per bag that is placed in the aft cargo even if carry-on.

We bump bags on a daily basis, sometimes passengers.

That's better than what we have. At Lakes, ours are now 203 summer and 208 winter (bags are still 25). Unless we have halfweights on now, we're pretty much an 18 pax airplane (ref MZFW problems). I can't understand how local FSDO's could mandate that we use weights that are different from any other airline's weights. Doesn't hardly seem fair.

 

[Dan CFI/CFII]

Speaking for the 1900s at our facility:

About half are in really good, near new shape. The other half are danged tired (one of them this week decided that Ground Fine was an altogether superflous thing for an engine to do, so it was idle to reverse--nothing in between). But even those are pretty much ready to go to a freight operator somewhere.

Raytheon has been auditing the various 1900 storage facilities this week, because I guess they expect a rather good time to sell them soon. But like someone said: the ones with two engines get started, taxied, run up, most of the sytems checked, and then put back into storage--to be run in another month.

Some of these are at the end of thier useful life, but the vast majority are merely in a holding yard for the expected sale when the economy improves. We have heard of some of the smaller passenger airlines seriously looking at trading 402s and Navajos for the 1900s--because they're really not that much more expensive, and somebody seems desparate to get rid of them.

Dan

 

[flying4life]

I don't know if they're trying to get rid of the plane. It's got a bad rap after the CLT accident which was totally mechanical. Especially since the same exact thing happened again in HYA with just the 2 pilots on board. I flew the mighty beech for 3 1/2 years. The "D" has a ton of power, the military has the same plane certified for 18000lbs gross. Of all planes to be worrying about weight, the 1900D should not be one of them.