Cessna 206 Turbo Stationair vs Cessna Grand Caravan Ex vs Daher Kodiak 100 Series Iii vs Piper M350

By category, the Cessna Turbo Stationair is a single‑engine piston utility aircraft, the Piper M350 is a pressurized single‑engine piston personal/business airplane, and both the Cessna Grand Caravan EX and Daher Kodiak 100 Series III are single‑engine turboprop utility aircraft optimized for short, rough-field work, with the Caravan generally emphasizing load-hauling and the Kodiak emphasizing STOL and backcountry versatility. On range, the M350 typically offers the longest real-world cross‑country capability among these four due to higher cruise efficiency and pressurization suited to higher altitudes, often around the 1,000+ nautical mile class depending on reserves and power settings. The turboprops (Grand Caravan EX and Kodiak 100 Series III) commonly fall in a midrange bracket roughly in the 700–1,100 nautical mile class depending heavily on payload, speed, and fuel options. The Turbo Stationair is usually shorter-legged than the others, commonly in the several-hundred to roughly 800 nautical mile class, again payload- and power-setting dependent. For passenger capacity, the Turbo Stationair and M350 are typically six-seat airplanes. The Kodiak is commonly configured around 9–10 seats. The Grand Caravan EX is the largest people-mover here, often configured up to about 14 seats in commuter layout (or fewer for executive/cargo).