Meet Beechcraft Duke
The Beechcraft Duke combined turbocharged piston engines with a pressurised cabin and retractable landing gear. Its swept-looking tail and compact low-wing airframe give it a distinctive outline. It entered the market between smaller touring twins and turbine-powered business aircraft.
Royal Turbine conversions replace the piston engines with PT6 turboprops, creating a materially different aircraft. Black Square models both branches with different engine behaviour while sharing a broad selection of period and modern navigation equipment. The individual variant is essential to any systems or performance discussion.
In your simulator
Systems, equipment and documentation for each developer’s aircraft.
Duke family
Black Square
The turbine conversion changes the engine story
Black Square's Turbine Duke models the Royal Turbine conversion with PT6A-35 engines, a different propulsion system from the piston Duke's turbocharged Lycomings. The manual describes persistent wear and failures, pressurisation and environmental systems, and a broad choice of navigation equipment. Period radios, the Century IV autopilot and optional modern GPS installations form distinct cockpit configurations.
Black Square / Just Flight · Turbine Duke manual ↗Black Square Turbine Duke · PDF p.9; introduction and feature overview
Manuals & resources
Read the original documentation from the people who created it. Manuals open on their publisher’s website.
Manual
Microsoft Flight Simulator aircraft manualsMicrosoft / aircraft developers Piston Duke manualBlack Square / Just Flight Turbine Duke manualBlack Square / Just FlightAircraft background
Beechcraft DukeWikipedia contributors · Research background · Wikipedia revision 1342466818 · retrieved 2026-09-12Documented interfaces
Source-documented identifiers. Documentation does not prove that every add-on populates a value correctly.
L:var_PilotCws
Pilot CWS button; aircraft-specific behavior.
- Units
- Boolean
- Access
- hardware control input; explicit readback contract unknown
Archived manual revision
Black Square / Just Flight · PDF page 140 ↗K:SYNC_FLIGHT_DIRECTOR_PITCH
Requires Control AP Pitch with Hardware Events tablet option.
- Units
- button/event
- Access
- send
v1.1 / SU15 notes
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