Cessna 425

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The Cessna 425(C-425) or Conquest I is an eight passenger, pressurized, turboprop aircraft that is usually configured to seat six. It is capable of cruising at up to 30,000 ft and at speeds of approximately 250KTAS. It is derived from the Cessna 421 piston twin. Cessna produced 236 C-425s from 1981-1986. The plane is certified for single pilot operations.

The first C-425s were called Corsairs and had maximum gross takeoff weights of 8,200 pounds. The Conquest name originally belonged to its larger turboprop sibling, the Cessna 441 (C-441). Cessna then issued an upgrade to the C-425 Corsair's landing gear that increased the gross takeoff weight to 8,600 and started calling the plane the Conquest I. The original C-441 Conquest became the Conquest II. It is believed that all the Corsairs had their landing gear converted and so they all became Conquest Is, making the Corsair extinct in the US. The two Conquest models were as far as Cessna ever got to creating a family of turboprop airplanes, such as the King Airs marketed by their competitors at Beechcraft.

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