While the aircraft carried more passengers than the Cessna 402s that the airline routinely used, they were vulnerable to gusty winds and would not be used for the route on particularly windy days.
Nantucket Airlines, or ACK Air as it is commonly referred to (ACK is the 3 letter identifier for Nantucket's Airport) utilizes a fleet of 6 Cessna 402C Businessliners/Utililiners (the Cape Air/Nantucket Airlines fleet consists of 60 Cessna 402Cs with 5 painted in the ACK Air livery and the remaining 55 painted in the Cape Air livery).
Cessna 172 | Cessna | Cessna 206 | Cessna 208 Caravan | Cessna 210 | Cessna T-37 Tweet | Cessna Skymaster | Cessna 182 | Cessna 150 | Cessna O-2 Skymaster | Cessna Citation V | Cessna A-37 Dragonfly | Cessna 402 | Cessna 152 | Cessna T-41 Mescalero | Cessna O-1 Bird Dog | Cessna 421 | Cessna 310 | Cessna 185 | Cessna 180 | Virginia State Route 402 | Slim Cessna's Auto Club | Reims-Cessna F406 Caravan II | Jay Munly performing with Slim Cessna's Auto Club | Cessna CitationJet | Cessna AT-17 Bobcat |
Nine people, including American R&B singer Aaliyah, the pilot and seven others, including make up artists and record label executives, were killed in a Cessna 402B (N8097W) crash on August 25, 2001 at Marsh Harbour, Abaco Islands, The Bahamas.