Why drive for hours on end when you can fly and have more fun? (Answer: Cuz it costs $3.5 million!)
The Kodiak 900 is a fast utility turboprop airplane able to take off in less than 1200 feet and can fly as far as 1300 miles on a tank if you keep the speed down to 180 mph at 12,000 feet. If you fly at the plane’s maximum speed of 242 mph, or 210 knots, you can go 1115 miles between fill ups. You can configure it any number of ways, from seating for 10 people and all their luggage but no motorcycles, to two people, two motorcycles and camping gear for a week.
The Kodiak 900 is a new way to look at fun and utility. You could even use it commercially, or for an NGO operation like Doctors Without Borders or UNICEF or the Red Cross, which often have to land in short spaces with lots of supplies.It’s similar to the Kodiak 100 that has been in production since 2007, but more upscale.. It’s built as a bush plane.
There is a single turbine powering the five-blade composite propeller. It’s a Pratt & Whitney PT6A-140A that makes 900 hp, 150 more hp than the Pratt & Whitney PT6A-34 in the Kodiak 100. The 140A and 140AG are the engines of choice in similar planes like the Cessna Grand Caravan EX, Air Tractor 502XP , and Thrush 510P2+ . The engine is good for 4000 hours between overhauls but that can be extended to 8000 hours—or 12 years—depending on the operation, according to P&W literature.
“With more than 230,000 flying hours accumulated and a perfect record of reliability, the series is the new benchmark in its class,” Pratt & Whitney says of its PT6A-140A. Likewise, the wing structure of the Kodiak 900 incorporates cuffs to prevent stalling, as well as other design factors that prevent spins. In fact, the same basic design idea was used in the wings of the
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