No, not a real King Air, it was a model. Some days are just like that. I would have days when I just could not get things to go right and have two or three engine failures. Then I might go 6 or 7 months without one. Here is Houston, the late fall and early winter make for a mixed bag of weather, one day it might be 80 degrees and two days later it is 50 degrees. So that time of year I am constantly retuning engines. These engines were a bit tempermental . But even though it might average out to about one in sixteen flights, they generally came in clusters. I was actually pleased with the model. However, the engines were O.S. Max FP 40's with bleed air idle adjustment. As the engines got older and older, (one was two years old when I built the King Air), they lost power and blew fuel out around the front bushing. My 11 minute tanks slowly turned into 9 minute tanks. And I had to fly at pretty much full power all of the time in order to have a nice feel about the plane. When it was new, I could easily come back 5 or 6 clicks from full power. This helps greatly. Sometimes when one engine was a little sour, I could just throttle back a little and it would sweeten up. Toward the end, I really could only back off about one or two clicks of power and it was noticeable immediately. So, what to do. Buy two more lame FP's? Spend nearly 300 on a pair of BB engines for an airplane that old? Or sell. I wasn't flying that much at the time, (new girlfriend) and I was feeling my luck was just about used up anyway. I have acquired a Bridi Shrike that I will do up Bob Hoover style one day. One day when I am flying 3 or 4 days a week and feeling sharp again.