Beechcraft Premier I

what is it?

The Beechcraft Premier I is a light business jet aircraft designed and manufactured by the Beechcraft division of Hawker Beechcraft. It was the company's first in-house designed business jet. Developed during the mid-to-late 1990s, the Premier I was designed to compete with the Cessna CitationJet series of aircraft.

🔎How to recognise it: 2 jet engines · 13.6 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 841 km/htop speed
• range 1,530 kmwithout refuelling
• size 5,670 kgmax take-off weight
• built 292made in total

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🎂First flew 28 years ago, in 1998.
• 🏎️Top speed is 6.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 13.6 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🌍Range of 1,530 km: 9× Amsterdam to Brussels.
• 🏔️Can fly 1.4× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).

jet: Gas turbine pushing air out the back (turbofan or turbojet): fast and high-flying.

spec sheet

first flight

1998-12-22

introduced

2001

status

still flying

number built

292

role

business jet

makers

Beechcraft

engines

2× Williams FJ44-2A / FJ44-2A

crew

1

length

14 m

wingspan

13.6 m

height

4.7 m

max take-off weight

5,670 kg

top speed

841 km/h

range

1,530 km

ceiling

12,500 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.