These numbers are based on flying with two pilots. All of those fixed costs combined give you a total of $203,799.38 annually. Pilot training will cost you $21,840.00 for the year. Insurance, including hull and legal liability, will cost you $21,766.88 for the year. To hangar a PC-12NG, you should expect to pay around $33,442.50 for the year. At 665 hours, or 200,000 miles, that’s a total of $439,265.75 per year in direct costs.Ĭrew expenses for the PC-12NG are, on average, $126,750.00 annually. With that being said, you’ll spend $660.55 on direct costs every hour. $146.46 of that is for the airframe, and $163.09 is for the engine and APU. You can expect maintenance on a PC-12NG to cost around $309.55 per hour. At $5.00 a gallon, fuel is going to cost you $351.00 per hour. Pilatus’ PC-12NG burns about 70.20 gallons of fuel per hour. Based on direct hourly costs and fixed annual costs, how much would it cost you to fly each of these turboprops for a year? To fly 200,000 miles in a King Air 250, cruising at 274 knots, or 316 miles per hour, you’d be flying for 632 hours. The PC-12NG cruises at around 261 knots, or 301 miles per hour, which means you’re flying the PC-12NG 665 hours in a year. Both operate with similar performance specs, with ranges between 1,600 and 1,700 nautical miles and room for seven passengers.įor consistency’s sake, we’ll use 200,000 miles per year as the common denominator for our comparison. This week, we’re comparing the costs of Pilatus’ single-engine PC-12NG and Beechcraft’s King Air 250.

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