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Bede Aircraft Company has since re-formed and has been working on several new designs. Before his death in 2015, Bede hinted at a two-seat tandem version of the aircraft, called the "Super BD-5", using a certified aircraft engine and a number of modifications and improvements, but nothing more than a preliminary design drawing was made available.
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Bede Aircraft Corporation was founded by aeronautical engineer Jim Bede in Cleveland in 1961 to produce the BD-1 kit aircraft, which eventually became the American Aviation Corporation's AA-1. The company also created and produced a number of advanced kit planes including the famous Bede BD-5 ( pusher propeller driven) and BD-5J (turbojet driven).
An aerial photo of the Pima Air & Space Museum in 2013. This is a list of aircraft in the collection of the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona. The identity of an aircraft may be its civil registration or its military serial number. An aircraft may have had civil use following its retirement from the military; furthermore an aircraft ...
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During the BD-10 project, Bede also started the design of updated BD-5's with two and four seats as the Bede BD-12 and Bede BD-14 respectively. They were designed under the reformed Bede Aircraft, also in Chesterfield. Once again deposits were accepted and held in escrow in order to hold a "place in line" for kit delivery.
A Bede BD-5, single-seat, home-built aircraft that was somewhat popular in the 1970s (5J version is the smallest crewed jet aircraft) The Beck-Mahoney Sorceress, known as the "winningest" racing biplane in aviation history; A British Hawker Hurricane fighter; A Japanese balloon bomb like the one that killed six U.S. civilians in Oregon during ...
The prototype first flew on July 11, 1963, and featured folding wings for trailering and ease of storage. Bede formed a company, Bede Aviation Corporation, based in Cleveland, Ohio, to produce the aircraft, but the BD-1 never entered production as a certified aircraft. At that time, the FAA was hesitant to certify a light aircraft with folding ...