Turboprops
Cessna Grand Caravan EX
The short-field and island aircraft. A 2,160 ft takeoff over a 50 ft obstacle, a cabin door big enough to load anything, and the ability to use strips that every other aircraft here has to decline.
Grand Caravan EX · 208B
Mission profile
The short-field and island aircraft. A 2,160 ft takeoff over a 50 ft obstacle, a cabin door big enough to load anything, and the ability to use strips that every other aircraft here has to decline.
Typical routes
- Fort Lauderdale → Nassau
- Palm Beach → Bimini
- Miami → Key West
- Boca Raton → Marsh Harbour
Verified specifications
The numbers, with their conditions attached.
A manufacturer's headline range assumes a lightly loaded aircraft at long-range cruise. Publishing that figure beside a seat count is how buyers get misled, so we publish both and plan against the realistic one.
- Typical seats
- 9
- Maximum seats
- 10
- Full-cabin range
- 600 nm
- Manufacturer max range
- 964 nm
- Max cruise
- 185 kt
- Planning cruise
- 170 kt
- Ceiling
- 25,000 ft
- Cabin length
- 16 ft 10 in
- Cabin height
- 4 ft 5 in
- Cabin width
- 5 ft 2 in
- Baggage
- Cabin stowage, plus an optional belly cargo pod
- Crew
- One or two pilots
About that range figure
Maximum-range profile, lightly loaded, standard day. Normal range with a useful load aboard is nearer 738 nm, and this is the one aircraft here where that gap matters on a real trip.
For planning a real trip with the cabin filled, we use 600 nm. That is the number the configurator on this site checks against before it recommends this aircraft for your route.
Worth knowing
- UNPRESSURIZED. It cruises below 12,000 ft on most trips, which means weather is felt rather than flown over and the ride is bumpier than anything else in this fleet. We say so before anyone books it, because it is the single thing a jet card client notices first.
- Slowest aircraft we quote at 185 ktas maximum cruise. On anything over about an hour a King Air or a PC-12 is the better option, and the configurator will say so.
- The case for it is access rather than comfort: Bahamian and Caribbean strips, short and unpaved runways, and a payload that takes luggage a light jet cannot.
- Textron publishes 185 ktas maximum cruise and 964 nm maximum range for the EX; a 208B on an older PT6A is slower. Our planning figures are deliberately conservative.
Confirmed at quote rather than published
We could not verify the following against a primary source, so we do not publish a figure for it — we confirm it for your specific aircraft when the trip is quoted: baggage volume. Publishing an unsourced number is how the previous version of this site ended up with eight inaccurate specification sets.
Common questions
How many passengers does the Cessna Grand Caravan EX seat?
9 in a typical charter configuration, with a maximum certified capacity of 10. The typical figure is the comfortable one and is what we quote against.
What is the range of the Cessna Grand Caravan EX?
The manufacturer figure is 964 nautical miles — Maximum-range profile, lightly loaded, standard day. Normal range with a useful load aboard is nearer 738 nm, and this is the one aircraft here where that gap matters on a real trip. For planning a trip with a full cabin, use approximately 600 nautical miles.
How fast is the Cessna Grand Caravan EX?
Maximum cruise is 185 knots true airspeed. We plan flight times at 170 knots, which is closer to how the aircraft is actually flown in service.
Can you stand up in the Cessna Grand Caravan EX?
Not fully. The cabin is 4 ft 5 in high, so you stoop to move between seats. On flights of two or three hours most people find that entirely acceptable; on longer legs a larger category is worth the additional cost.
Turboprops
Others in this category
The right answer under an hour.
Beechcraft King Air 350i
The largest cabin in the turboprop category and the one that seats a real party of eight. A 3,300 ft takeoff run opens up fields a light jet has to decline.
- Seats
- 8
- Range
- 1,200 nm
- Cruise
- 312 kt
Pilatus PC-12 NGX
The short-field specialist. A 2,458 ft takeoff run and a cargo door wide enough for skis, bikes or a dog crate, in a cabin wider than a King Air’s.
- Seats
- 6
- Range
- 1,000 nm
- Cruise
- 290 kt
Ask about the Cessna Grand Caravan EX
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