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The Beechcraft Model 18 (or "Twin Beech", as it is also known) is a 6- to 11-seat, [1] twin-engined, low-wing, tailwheel light aircraft manufactured by the Beech Aircraft Corporation of Wichita, Kansas. Continuously produced from 1937 to November 1969 (over 32 years, a world record at the time), over 9,000 were built, making it one of the world ...
Beechcraft Model 18: 1937 9,000+ Twin piston engine monoplane transport airplane Beechcraft Model 19 Musketeer Sport: 922 Single piston engine monoplane utility airplane Beechcraft Model 22 N/A 0 Unbuilt bomber [1] Beechcraft Model 23: 1961 2,331 [a] Single piston engine monoplane utility airplane Beechcraft Model M-23N N/A 0
Beechcraft is an American brand of civil aviation and military aircraft owned by Textron Aviation since 2014, [1] headquartered in Wichita, Kansas.Originally, it was a brand of Beech Aircraft Corporation, an American manufacturer of general aviation, commercial, and military aircraft, ranging from light single-engined aircraft to twin-engined turboprop transports, business jets, and military ...
September 20 – Singer-songwriters Jim Croce and Maury Muehleisen and four others die in the crash of a commercial Beechcraft E18S shortly after takeoff from Natchitoches Regional Airport in Natchitoches, Louisiana. [12]
On the night of Thursday, September 20, 1973, during Croce's Life and Times tour, which had been scheduled for 45 dates, and the day before his ABC single "I Got a Name" was released, Croce and five others were killed when their chartered Beechcraft E18S crashed shortly after takeoff from the Natchitoches Regional Airport in Natchitoches ...
The Super Hornet is an enlarged redesign of the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet.The wing and tail configuration trace its origin to a Northrop prototype aircraft, the P-530, c. 1965, which began as a rework of the lightweight Northrop F-5E (with a larger wing, twin tail fins and a distinctive leading edge root extension, or LERX). [4]
The 200 series proved so popular that Beechcraft began work on a successor, with the Beechcraft designation Model 300 and marketed as the "Super King Air 300". The B200's airframe was "cleaned up" and more powerful engines (PT6A-60A, rated at 1,050 shp (780 kW)) were installed in redesigned cowlings (known as "pitot cowlings" due to the ...
The Beechcraft Model 50 Twin Bonanza is a small twin-engined aircraft designed by Beechcraft as an executive transport for the business market. It was developed to fill a gap in Beechcraft's product line between the single-engined Model 35 Bonanza and the larger Model 18 . [ 1 ]