Beechcraft King Air — U.S. Fleet History & Risk Data
Turboprop · 2,860 aircraft on the U.S. registry · built 1964–2026
NTSB records whose airframe serial does not match the aircraft currently holding the registration are excluded, as are service difficulty reports filed while a registration belonged to a different aircraft. U.S. registrations get reused; these counts are reconciled to the airframes actually in this fleet.
Where this fleet reports maintenance difficulties
FAA Service Difficulty Reports filed against Beechcraft King Air airframes, grouped by JASC system chapter — a factual picture of what mechanics actually report on this type.
- 32 — Landing Gear : 185 reports
- 21 — Air Conditioning : 100 reports
- 57 — Wings : 76 reports
- 27 — Flight Controls : 61 reports
- 34 — Navigation : 54 reports
Recent airworthiness directives matched to this type
- AD 2012-21-06 · effective 2012-11-27 — reports of incorrect gauge wires used in certain wiring bundles for the cockpit electrical power for backlighting and instrument panel components
ADs published since 1999 in our Federal Register database — the full list of directives applicable to an older airframe is longer; build it at drs.faa.gov. Open/superseded status reflects our last sync. Compliance for a specific airframe can only be verified in its logbooks — that's exactly what our per-aircraft report flags.