Originally Posted by stinsonjr

I read an article in Flying magazine last year about a company that is putting PT-6's on Duke's. They are rehabbing the carcass and making it an almost new airplane. If I recall the article said that this is the plane Beech should have built in the first place. I think that the total cost is somewhere around $1.5 million (old Duke, restoration, Turbines) - but then you have a really nice fast personal airplane. Considering that a new Baron costs around a million bucks today it seems like a bargain!