Cessna 402

For them, the electric aircraft range constraints don't matter since all their routes are so short and therefore the speed constraints don't either.

When Cape Air flies from Martha's Vineyard to New York JFK on their propeller-driven Cessna 402, the flight takes an average of seventy minutes, whereas Delta, flying the same route using a jet CRJ200, takes forty-five.

When Cape Air flies from Nantucket to Boston Logan Airport, they take thirty-nine minutes, whereas JetBlue on their E190 aircraft takes twenty-eight.

Those extra 11 or 25 minutes are negligible in the overall travel experience, especially considering that Cape Air's boarding times with nine passengers are certainly quicker than with Delta's 50 passengers or JetBlue's 100.

Other costs would go up.

Cape Air budgets $269,903 per year on ownership costs, meaning the amortized prorated cost of owning their aircraft.

While details are not known, and so an accurate estimate would be impossible, there's no world in which a new electric aircraft is cheaper than the mass-produced, long-proven Cessna 402.

It wouldn't be unreasonable to expect that ownership costs would, say, double.

Oh

... and a Chieftain Cessna 402C, quite a lot of hours in those ones.

With your PPL, so you-

With my, with my PPL building the hours and-

On July 10th, 2026, a Cessna 402C, registration number C6-FLX, operated by Flamingo Air Limited, crashed while on final approach to San Andros Airport in The Bahamas, ultimately killing all 10 people on board.

The Flight Safety Detective sponsored by Avemco will discuss the preliminary report.

On July 10th, 2026, a Flamingo Air Limited charter flight crashed into a wooded area while on approach to San Andros Airport's Runway 12 in The Bahamas.

The flight's origin was Lynden Pindling International Airport in Nassau, also in The Bahamas.

The flight, which departed Nassau at 12:31 PM local time, was operated by a Cessna 402C, registration C6-FLX, and had a single pilot and nine passengers on board.

It crashed into pine trees and came to rest about a mile short of Runway 12's approach end at 12:48 PM local time.

The aircraft was destroyed by a post-crash fire that immediately killed nine of the aircraft's 10 occupants.

The 10th occupant was able to egress the aircraft alive, but succumbed to injuries later in the hospital.