Aircraft
Blackhawk Delivers 100th XP67A Engine Upgrade
The milestone comes two and a half years after its certification
Blackhawk Aerospace’s XP67A engine upgrade delivers much faster climb and cruise speeds to the Beechcraft King Air 350. (Photo: Blackhawk Aerospace)
Blackhawk Aerospace’s XP67A engine upgrade delivers much faster climb and cruise speeds to the Beechcraft King Air 350. (Photo: Blackhawk Aerospace)

Just 2.5 years after receiving supplemental type certificate (STC) approval for the XP67A engine on Beechcraft King Air 300s and 350s, Blackhawk Aerospace (Booth 4819) has delivered its 100th pair of the higher-performance engine upgrade. “Our engineering team got this STC done in about 12 to 13 months,” Blackhawk president and CEO Jim Allmon told AIN. “For most companies that do a major STC of this size, it’s a three-year process. Normally we don’t hit 100 on a product line for four or five years.”