Very interesting contraxdog, very interesting but I pressume you ONLY speak about the blade conversion if I understand you correct ?
As posted earlier during my carreer I / we had to make a decission between a King 300 and a Cit II SP. It is sad that I never even saw the King Air - never mind flying it and the decission was purely made upon the "brochure facts" and we know what kak we are talking about now ....
But in hind -site I still think the Citation was great for what we used it and we never had to land on a dirt strip anyway (if you can call Zanzibar a tar strip (in the early 90's) ..
All for now : sorry no chirps 126.9 .. uncle Gunship is watching Tiger taming Garcia, but he's got Martina Hinges on hand so you never know !
Cheers,