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208B Grand Caravan Officially named the 208B Caravan but marketed as the Grand Caravan.
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The 208B Grand Caravan is 4 feet (1.2 m) longer than the 208 and the passenger-carrying version has eight side windows instead of the 208's six. Ģ08B Grand Caravan in Mexico with its right rear airstair door open. Marketing designation for the 208 Caravan with a higher-powered PT6A-114A engine. Early aircraft can be modified to use the higher-powered PT6A-114A but have restricted operating limits. The landplane variant was type approved on Octoand the seaplane version with Wipline Model 8000 Amphibious/Seaplane Floats was type approved on March 26, 1986. Variants Civilian 208 Caravan First production variant with a PT6A-114 turboprop engine and seating for up to nine passengers. In November 2021, Egyptian Army Cessna 208s were used to fight smugglers in western Egypt. In August 2021, fearing Taliban reprisals, pilots of the Afghan Air Force made a last minute escape from Kabul to Tajikistan on an AC-208 moments before the city fell to the Taliban. The short-fuselage Caravan burns 48 US gal (180 L) of fuel per hour at 170 kn (310 km/h) for 200 nmi (370 km) stages. The aircraft is also used for cargo operations.
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The airplane typically seats nine passengers with a single pilot, although with a FAR Part 23 waiver it can seat up to fourteen passengers. A number of Caravans are operated as skydiving aircraft with the left-side cargo hatch converted to a roll-up door. Many variants include an underbelly cargo pod, which can be used for additional freight capacity, or for passenger baggage.
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The cabin can be configured in a low density passenger configuration, with 1-1 seating, as a combination of passengers and cargo, or as a strictly cargo aircraft. This variant is capable of holding up to thirteen passengers, although it is marketed as being able to make a profit carrying just four. The standard high-density airline configuration has four rows of 1-2 seating behind the two seats in the cockpit. The Caravan interior can be outfitted with seats or as a cargo compartment. Design Ģ08B Grand Caravan in the Netherlands, modified with roller door for parachuting operations skydivers sitting on the cabin floor are visible inside the rear roller door. By April 2016 about 30 aircraft, assembled from kits of parts shipped from the US by Cessna, had been delivered to Chinese operators by the joint venture. Chinese government approval was granted in September the following year and the first Chinese-assembled Caravan was delivered in December 2013. In May 2012 Cessna announced that an assembly line for the 208 would be established in China, with the government-owned China Aviation Industry General Aircraft (CAIGA) conducting final assembly of Caravans at its plant in Shijiazhuang for the Chinese market. In 2021, the 208 Caravan unit cost was US$2.45 million and US$2.845 million for the 208B Grand Caravan EX. The move was made to make room for production of the Citation Longitude and Denali in Wichita.
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In August 2016, Textron announced that it would move the Cessna 208 production line from its Wichita headquarters to its Independence, Kansas production facility, for manufacture alongside along the piston-powered 172, 182, 206 and TTx and the Citation M2 light jet. In January 2013 a higher-powered (867 shp from P&WC PT6A-140) version, the Grand Caravan EX, received FAA certification. Since then, the Caravan has undergone a number of design evolutions, including upgrading the avionics in 2008 to provide a glass cockpit with the Garmin G1000 system. Ī passenger model, the 208B Grand Caravan, was derived from the Super Cargomaster. įedEx was initially planning to build twin-engine piston-powered airplanes with Piper Aircraft, but picked the Caravan after surveying it and having flown the prototype, becoming its standard carrier. Another cargo variant for Federal Express, with a longer fuselage and a cargo pod under the belly, was developed as the 208B Super Cargomaster and flew for the first time in 1986. A freighter variant without cabin windows was developed at the request of Federal Express as the Cargomaster. The production model was certified by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in October 1984. The prototype first flew on December 9, 1982. Berwick had originally approached VP Bill Boettger with the idea and once Dwane Wallace approved it, Berwick told Russ Meyer he would design it. John Berwick, chief engineer at Pawnee, came with a concept of a single engine, high-wing airplane with a large payload. On November 20, 1981, the project was given a go-ahead by Cessna for its Pawnee engineering facility.