New Life For Hard-Flown King Airs

While walking the static display ramp at NBAA 2010, there was no lack of eyeball candy to feast one's aero-orbs upon... and a rather aggressive upgrade program for elder King Air 90s (one of my favorite birds of all time) definitely deserved the attention of ANN's crack Aero-TV journalists.

Smyrna Air Center’s Power 90 King Air sleek, black aircraft was decorated with a distinctive color design highlighting the GE M601E-11A engines. Refurbished with a plush interior and stunning all-glass panel, this eye-popping King Air A90 boasted the Power 90 motto of “An Upgrade Fit for a King.”

As a GE-approved installation facility, Smyrna Air Center created the Power 90 Upgrade program specifically to modernize King Air 90 aircraft. The upgrade is performed through Smyrna Air Center’s 145 Maintenance Repair Station, in which experienced technicians remove the stock Pratt and Whitney PT-6 engines and upgrade the aircraft with the dependable GE M601E-11A turboprop engines and your choice of a four-bladed or five-bladed propeller.

The option to upgrade the King Air with the GE H80 engines will be available in 2011.

Smyrna Air Center is already working on the STC for the King Air 100 models, and hopes to have the first King Air 100 conversion completed in 2011.

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