| Scale: 1/32 Length: 13" Winspan: 19" The Model 90 King Air was conceived as the Model 120 in 1961. In May 1963 Beechcraft began test flights of the proof-of-concept Model 87, a modified Queen Air with Pratt & Whitney Canada PT-6A-6 engines. On July 14 that year Beechcraft announced it was developing a new aircraft type. A month later Beechcraft advised that it was accepting orders for the new type, to be called the ôKing Airö, for deliveries commencing in the Autumn of 1964. |