Beech 1900
ICAO B190A stretched King Air with airliner seating, flown by the US Army as the C-12J. Live Beech 1900 positions.
Flying right now
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No Beech 1900 is transmitting ADS-B at the moment.
Military aircraft are not obliged to broadcast, so this happens regularly. The count refreshes every thirty seconds.
Airframe
- Manufacturer
- Beechcraft
- Role
- Utility transport
- Class
- L2T — Landplane, 2 turboprop engines
- Crew
- 2
- First flight
- 3 September 1982
- In service
- 1984
Operators airborne
Nothing of this type is up right now.
About the Beech 1900
The 1900 is what happens when a King Air is stretched until it becomes a regional airliner: nineteen seats, a stand-up cabin, and the same reliable turboprops underneath. It sold well commercially and picked up a small military following.
The US Army flies a handful as the C-12J for utility transport, and Taiwan, Egypt and a few others operate them. It is a small fleet and appears here in ones and twos.
The distinguishing feature on the airliner version is a set of small horizontal surfaces on the rear fuselage — tailets, added to fix a stability problem the stretch introduced.
Callsign prefixes
- PAT
- Priority Air Transport — US Army
- ARMY
- Generic US Army block
How to recognise it
- —A long, thin low-wing twin turboprop with a T-tail and a row of airliner windows.
- —Small winglet-like surfaces on the rear fuselage below the tail on the 1900D.
- —Noticeably longer than any King Air.
Common questions
+ Is the Beech 1900 a King Air?
It is a derivative. The 1900 uses King Air ancestry stretched into a nineteen-seat commuter airliner with a stand-up cabin, and shares engines and much systems design.
+ What is the C-12J?
The US Army designation for its Beech 1900C aircraft, used for utility transport. Only a small number are in service.
+ What are the small fins on the rear fuselage?
Tailets, added to restore directional stability lost when the fuselage was stretched. They are a reliable way to identify a 1900D.