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Used Aircraft Guide: Cessna 425 Corsair/Conquest I
For anyone alert and paying attention to general aviation during the 1970s, current offerings from the "big three" manufacturers-Beech, Cessna and Piper-must have seemed like an afterthought. Back then, all three companies offered a full range of propeller-driven aircraft, from two-seat trainers to mile-chewing turboprops. Heck, Cessna even began selling jets early in that decade. For most of us mere mortals, though, a turboprop was about all we could expect to ever try stuffing into a hangar. But even there, we had choices. Beech had been busy making its King Air line since the mid-1960s, while Piper gained FAA certification of its first Cheyenne model in 1972. Cessna, perhaps nodding to Beechs preeminence in the market, leapfrogged turboprops altogether, preferring to put its development dollars into the Citation line, a move thats paid off handsomely. But the 70s were almost ready to yield to the 1980s before Cessna type-certificated its first turboprop, the Model 441, in August 1977. Now known as the Conquest II, the Model 441 was an evolution of the Model 404 Titan, a piston-powered twin, powered by Garrett (now Honeywell) TPE331-8 Series turboprop engines. Confusingly, the Model 425-eventually dubbed Conquest I-earned its type certificate almost three full years later, and started life as the Cessna Corsair. Itself an evolution of the very successful Model 421, the 425 was powered by venerable Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-112 engines. Before production of Cessnas "Baby Turboprop" ended in 1986-along with a lot of other models from among the GA manufacturers-some 236 Model 425 Corsair/Conquest Is were produced.
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Nov. 10, Idaho Falls, Idaho / Cessna 425
At approximately 12:15 mountain time, a Cessna 425 crashed about two miles north of Fanning Field. The two occupants on board for the maintenance test flight were killed. The aircraft had recently had maintenance work performed on its autofeather system after reports of the left engine not autofeathering properly in flight. The maintenance work was performed and the purpose of the accident flight was to verify proper inflight operation of the system. Two witnesses described the aircraft as entering a spiral from a banked turn about five minutes after takeoff. One said he first observed the aircraft flying south 200 to 300 feet agl. He said the aircraft entered a left turn and began a skiddi...
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Cessna 425 Conquest I
[IMGCAP(1)]<P>Called the turbine 421, Baby Conquest, the baby carriage, entry-level turboprop and other diminutives, the 425 is in our book the best all-around businessman pilot-operated jetprop. Just be prepared to pay a price that extends far beyond initial purchase.<P>Cessna filled out its broad range of aircraft with turboprop models very late in the game. The company leapfrogged the category by going directly to jets early in the 1970s. Beech already largely owned the turboprop market by then, which may have affected the thinking of Cessna management.<P><B>History</B><BR>The original Conquest, the Garrett TPE-331-8-powered 441, was introduced in 1977. The 425, originally dubbed Cors...
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