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Conquest II w/ the dash-10 engines or a Twin Commander would work. Conquest II definately a better airplane unless you can find a renaissanced Twin Commander.

That would do the job nicely.
 
This is requiring a lot of research! As of now the budget is $600k for the initial cost of the aircraft, with $300k put aside for all other yearly expenses. I am looking at couple nice King Air 100s, and a couple Commander 685s. Any input/advice/recommendations? Thanks in advance and thanks again for the AWESOME advice so far. This really is the best aviation forum online.
 
make sure it's a renaissanced commander... people that have any experience with twin commanders will know what I'm referring to... they're still under the 1million mark, but WAY fewer problems because essentially what they do is go through and gut it and upgrade and replace everything.

A good good friend of mine flies a commander and they like it well enough, but dealing with all of the failures and such (especially with the electrical system- generators, GCUs, etc...) they would of been better off buying a Citation II. Old commanders are notorious for these kinds of problems, and that's where this whole "renaissanced" commander comes from.

Also, make sure you do your homework for maint. Find a good mech who has experience with commanders and garrett engines (assuming the Dash 10 conversion here.. which is almost a no brainer). Some guys wont touch them.

If you can do all of that, the commander is a good, cheap option for the endurance and usefull load.

Let me know if you need any more information, I can try to answer from my own knowledge or pass any questions you have along to him.

I've flown the Conquest II, there's an operator next door to me at the airport here who uses it. But that sounds like it might be out of your price range.

IF you could swing the 1.4 million though, certainly worth taking a look at over the commander. Cessna is a good company.

-James
 
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