Originally Posted by
EerFoolWVU
I flew on one of these Wednesday on Great Lakes and am about to board one now...the doors are still open (even though it's obviously post-9/11).
I was shocked at first but it's definitely cool to see.
I'm pretty sure that the B1900s don't have doors to close. At least the ones I used to fly on didn't. Maybe they added them but I don't know for sure. I definitely enjoyed a night landing at PHL with the curtain open staring out the front windows.
Also interesting is that the B1900s are small enough that they do not have to operate under the crazy TSA rules. They generally do to facilitate the connections for passengers, but they do not have to based on their size.