With designer Ted Wells, they developed the first aircraft under the Beechcraft name, the classic Model 17 Staggerwing, which first flew in November 1932.

Other important Beech planes are the King Air / Super King Air line of twin-engine turboprops, in production since 1964, the Baron, a twin-engine variant of the Bonanza, and the Beechcraft Model 18, originally a business transport and commuter airliner from the late 1930s through the 1960s, which remains in active service as a cargo transport.

Beechcraft Starship | Beechcraft Model 2000 Starship

* Model 34 Twin-Quad Prototype small airliner ; the largest aircraft ever built by Beechcraft

* Beechcraft Model 40 A Twin engined Bonanza, only one produced unique " over-under " arrangement of engines

* 1941 – Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of the Philippines took its first flight between Manila ( from Nielson Field ) to Baguio City with a Beechcraft Model 18 making the airline the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name.

Jet engines were applied after World War II, in such types as the Teledyne Ryan Firebee I of 1951, while companies like Beechcraft also got in the game with their Model 1001 for the United States Navy in 1955.

During the 1960s to 1980s, typical destinations were Springfield and Carbondale, and typical aircraft were the Beechcraft Model 99 and Piper PA-31 Navajo.

* C-6 Ute and U-21 Ute, two military variants of the Beechcraft King Air Model 90

* Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing AAF Beech UC / YC-43 Traveler ( Navy GB-1 / 2 )

* Beechcraft Super King Air Model B200

* Beechcraft Commuter Model 1900

* August 25 – Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808, a Beechcraft Model 99, crashes at Auburn, Maine, while on final approach to Auburn / Lewiston Municipal Airport, killing all eight people on board ; among them is 13-year-old Samantha Smith, an American school girl who had become famous as a " Goodwill Ambassador " to the Soviet Union and who had been cast on the television show Lime Street.

* July 12-Scaled Composites / Beechcraft Model 143 Triumph N143SC, also first flight of the Williams International FJ44 turbofan engine.

From 1996 the fleet of piston-powered aircraft were replaced with more modern turboprop aircraft, and by 2000 the fleet consisted of one Beechcraft Model 99 and three Hawker Siddeley 748 Series 2As.

Beechcraft Starship Model 2000

The most popular V-tailed aircraft in mass production was the Beechcraft Bonanza Model 35, often known as the V-tail Bonanza or simply V-Tail.

In the 1990s, the embargo was lifted and the Lockheed L-188 Electras ( civilian aircraft converted for maritime patrol ) were finally retired and replaced with similar P-3B Orions and civilian Beechcraft King Air Model 200 were locally converted to the MP variant.

They were replaced by Beechcraft Model B200 Super King Airs leased from Pacific Aeromotive.

During the 1960s the airline operated a Beechcraft Model 99 and six Convair 600s, along with the inevitable DC-3s.

* Beechcraft Model 99

* July 19 – Beech Model 26, prototype of the Beechcraft AT-10 Wichita

* December 2 – Beechcraft Model 45, prototype of the Beechcraft T-34 Mentor

Principal companies based at Oxford Airport include Eurocopter, Hawker Beechcraft, Hangar 8, Jet Connections, PremiAir, Flairjet, AirMed, Pilot Flight Training and Capital Air Services.

* 10 December – The United States Federal Aviation Administration issues an Emergency Airworthiness Directive effectively grounding the entire U. S. fleet of Beechcraft T-34 Mentor aircraft.

# REDIRECT Beechcraft T-34 Mentor

# REDIRECT Beechcraft T-34 Mentor

* Beechcraft T-34 Mentor ( under license )

On January 23, 2010 a United States Navy Beechcraft T-34 Mentor training aircraft crashed into Lake Ponchartrain just over one mile from the approach end of the airport.

Manufacturers such as Cessna, Piper, and Beechcraft expanded production to provide light aircraft for the new middle-class market.

Most of the other light aircraft acquired by the FABF in the 1970s and 1980s have also now been retired along with the Mi-4 helicopters, but some recent acquisitions have been made, including a Beechcraft King Air, a Piper PA-34 Seneca, a CEAPR Robin light training aircraft, and a single Air Tractor AT-802 aerial sprayer aircraft for spraying insecticides, purchased after the northern part of the country suffered heavy crop damage from a 2004 invasion of swarming locusts.

In 1942 Beech won its first Army-Navy ‘ E ’ Award production award and became one of the elite five percent of war contracting firms in the country to win five straight awards for production efficiency, mostly for the production of the Beechcraft 18 which remains in widespread use worldwide.

Safe transport for various diplomatic missions were undertaken, requiring the acquisition of larger aircraft types, such as Sikorsky S-61, Beechcraft King Air and De Haviland DHC-8-300.

The Beechcraft 1900, for example, has only 19 seats.

Three types of fixed-wing aircraft are operated by the FAA for training purposes: pilot training is carried out using the Grob Tutor while, from March 2011, observer training is done using four Beechcraft King Air 350s.

Manufacturers such as Cessna, Piper, and Beechcraft expanded production to provide light aircraft for the new middle-class market.

A fee of $ 36 per passenger was charged for the single-engined 1947 Beechcraft Bonanza 35 ( V-tail ), ().

However, the city remains a major manufacturing center for the aircraft industry today, with Hawker Beechcraft, Bombardier, Cessna, and even Airbus all having major manufacturing centers in town.

Orders for new aircraft plummeted, prompting Wichita's five largest aircraft manufacturers — Boeing Co., Cessna Aircraft Co., Bombardier Learjet Inc., Hawker Beechcraft and Raytheon Aircraft Co .— to slash a combined 15, 000 jobs between 2001 and 2004.

* Pave Eagle-Modified Beechcraft Bonanza drone aircraft for low altitude sensor monitoring.

Currently based aircraft include several corporate helicopters and a dealership for Beechcraft is established here.

* In Shindand, Afghanistan, the Taliban released the United Nations a 10-seater Beechcraft airplane they had forced to land the previous day, and had it flown to Taliban headquarters in Kandahar for repairs rather than allowing it to complete its flight to Kunduz.

For a period of three weeks in August 2006, Air Midwest operated as Delta Connection, flying three Beechcraft 1900D from John F. Kennedy Airport to Providence, RI, and Windsor Locks, Connecticut, as a stop-gap measure for Freedom Airlines, another subsidiary of Mesa Air Group, until it was relieved by Chautauqua Airlines.

* Air Midwest Flight 5481-a Beechcraft 1900D operated by Air Midwest as US Airways Express under a franchise agreement, crashed into an airport hangar and burst into flames 37 seconds after leaving Charlotte / Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina, for Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport near Greer, South Carolina, on January 8, 2003.

* Beechcraft AT-10 Wichita, a World War II trainer airplane for the United States Army Air Forces

For instance, the Handley Page Jetstream ( first flight in 1968 ) was intended for fewer passengers at much higher speeds, displacing smaller designs like the Beechcraft Queen Air.

), the Beechcraft and Electra were traded in for two Sikorsky S-43 amphibians.

Aerospace companies, like Boeing and Beechcraft, used transparencies for years in management meetings in order to brief engineers and relevant personnel about new aircraft designs and changes to existing designs, as well as bring up illustrated problems.

The Air Corps previously employed two of its three Beechcraft 200 Super King Airs for this duty.

UND operates a fleet over 100 aircraft including Cessna 172's, 150's, Piper Seminoles, Arrows, two Beechcraft King Air 90's and a pair of Decathlons for flight training.