Eighteen-seat reference version powered by two 750 shp Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-34 turboprops, the one documented in Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1988-89.
This is the model whose figures are usually quoted as representative of the mature Bandeirante: a maximum cruise of 411 km/h at 2440 m, an economical cruise of 341 km/h at 3050 m and a range of 1964 km with a forty-five-minute reserve. It carried 1720 litres of fuel in four integral wing tanks and three-blade Hartzell constant-speed, fully feathering, reversible propellers. Take-off run was about 807 m and landing run about 868 m.