ICAO Restriction on BE300s
 

Our King Air 300 registration has an international 12,500 pound weight restriction as do many similar King Airs.

Question:

Is that just a single pilot restriction, or an across the board restriction on all operations?

And....what can be done to lift the restriction?

Your King Air 300 is restricted to 12,500 lbs or do I read your above comment correctly and you are restricted only internationally?

USMCFLYR

The King Air B200 has a max weight of 12,500. The B300 is 14,000 and the B350 is 15,000. I have operated the 200 and 350 all over the world and never had any weight restrictions. The only change we had was to fly the 350 with two pilots as some countries do not recognize the single pilot type rating.

Beechcraft produced two versions of the 300. The standard model was the 300 and the second version was the 300LW. The 300LW was build with a MTOW limited to 12,500 to meet the aviation regulatory requirements of various countries. Roughly 10% of the 300s produced were 300LW models.

Does the LW 12.5 limit apply domestically as well?