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King Air system enables cargo quick change for RVL
Since it was delivered in May this year, RVL's latest King Air 200 has been rushed off its feet performing business, medical and engineering flights. The eight-seater can now be reconfigured in less than 60 minutes.
The King Air's standard configuration is for passenger service.
Read this story in our November 2020 printed issue.

Specialist aviation services provider RVL, based at the East Midlands airport cargo hub in the UK, has added an Aerospace Resources quick-change cargo system to its Beechcraft King Air B200 aircraft, having taken delivery of the turboprop in May. The new system allows the King Air to be converted from passenger to cargo aircraft configuration in under 60 minutes, enabling the stowage of up to 1,500lb of cargo.

“The new system adds significantly to our flexibility, not only increasing our overall freight capacity but also providing us with a cargo aircraft that is quicker and with a greater range, as well as one better able to operate in poor weather,” says head of business development David Lacy. “The Aerospace Resources conversion system provides us with the flexibility to carry time critical, high value, low volume goods, which is very much an expanding market, and afterwards rapidly return the King Air to its standard eight-seat commuter configuration.”

The aircraft is the fourth King Air in operation with RVL, which says it is the only eight-seater (COVID-19 regulations and social-distancing permitting) commuter configured King Air B200 available for charter in the UK – most have a maximum capacity of seven – and has seen extensive use since its fleet arrival, moving business travellers, medical teams and engineering crews.

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