Beechcraft King Air 90: US Fleet Statistics

The FAA aircraft registry lists 889 Beechcraft King Air 90 aircraft with a valid registration as of July 11, 2026. The Beechcraft King Air 90 is a multi-engine airplane, and this family groups every registered variant of the Beechcraft 90 together. It ranks #55 by registration count among the model families tracked in this dataset.

These counts come from the FAA MASTER file and reflect aircraft with an active “valid” registration status. To pull up the current owner, based state, and registration dates for a specific airframe, use the free FAA tail number lookup. To browse every model in this dataset, see the US aircraft fleet statistics index.

The median registered Beechcraft King Air 90 was manufactured in 1982. Most were built between 1973 and 2007, and manufacture years across the registered fleet span roughly 1968 to 2014. A manufacture year is on file for 755 of the 889 registered aircraft.

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The FAA registry lists 889 Beechcraft King Air 90 aircraft with a valid US registration — about 6.4% of all turboprop-powered aircraft in the US crewed fleet, and #55 of the 75 model families tracked here. The registered fleet carries a median manufacture year of 1982, newer than the overall US general-aviation fleet, whose median airframe dates to 1979. By state, Texas, Delaware, and California together account for 29.5% of the fleet, and the top ten states hold 57.0%.

The registered King Air 90 fleet is the oldest of the three King Air families featured here by median manufacture year, with many 1970s and 1980s airframes still in active service. That longevity is a testament to the design, but it also means these tails have accumulated deep maintenance records and legacy equipment that reward careful, searchable history rather than a paper folder.

Registrations follow the familiar business-aviation and King Air home-state pattern: Texas leads, Kansas ranks high, and Delaware over-indexes on owner-trust and LLC registrations rather than physical basing.

Shares are computed from the FAA registry snapshot on July 11, 2026. Engine-type share is of all turboprop-powered aircraft in the crewed US fleet; state shares are of all 889 registered Beechcraft King Air 90 aircraft.

The Beechcraft King Air 90 (the C90 and its variants) is the smallest and longest-serving member of the King Air family. As a light twin-turboprop it has served owner-flown business travel, regional charter, training, and utility roles for decades, and it remains one of the more accessible ways into turboprop operation for small flight departments and individual owners.

Because so many 90-series airframes are older, operators tend to use them for shorter regional missions and manage a maintenance profile shaped by high cumulative hours and legacy systems. Operator types span single-owner businesses, shared-ownership groups and flying clubs, and small charter fleets.