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Piston Aircraft
You mentioned range and capacity but not speeds. The older cabin class aircraft are nice but in your price range you would be buying a maintenance nightmare in most cases, especially going twin, your costs are going to double. You can buy an almost new Cessna Stationair or Turbo Stationair for under 500K. You may sacrifice range but no one wants to sit for 1,000 miles in most cases anyway. All aircraft have their trade-offs, the turbo stationair will carry up to 6 passengers, burns about 17 gph, cruise at 164kts. Non turbo will go about 600 nm, 14 gph at 142 kts.
There are 2006 stationairs out there some with warranty remaining for less than $450,000. There are also extended warranty programs available.
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