* February 15 – The Beechcraft Starship makes its maiden flight.

Beechcraft Starship Model 2000

They were also used similarly on the derivative Rutan Long-EZ and reappeared on his Beechcraft Starship business aircraft design that first flew in 1986.

In 1982, Beechcraft contracted Rutan's Scaled Composites to refine the design and build the prototype Beechcraft Starship.

Scaled Composites White Knight | White Knight carried Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne | SpaceShipOne aloft, with a Beechcraft Starship flying chase plane | chase.

Beechcraft 2000A " Starship ": Beechcraft Starship Serial Number: NC-23 Registration: N39TU Markings: Image America, 2001.

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The Beechcraft Starship of canard configuration

1978 Beechcraft Bonanza | Beech Bonanza F33C

1943 Beechcraft Staggerwing | Beech D. 17S Staggerwing

A Beechcraft Super King Air | King Air in the JAARS hangar

A PMDG Beechcraft 1900 | Beech 1900D of " American Flight Airways "; in AFA Express colors

File: Beechcraft B200 King Air-VH-MSH. jpg | King Air

A Beechcraft 1900 | Beechcraft 1900C, flown by Pacific Coastal Airlines, landing at Vancouver International Airport

Kenn Borek Air Beechcraft King Air | King Air in Aklak Air colours

Air Nunavut's Beechcraft Super King Air | Beechcraft Super King Air 200 at Cambridge Bay Airport

Bergen Air Transport Beechcraft Super King Air | Beechcraft 200 at Kristiansund Airport, Kvernberget

Avior Airlines Raytheon Beechcraft 1900 | Beechcraft B1900D showing the livery the airline instituted in 2006

Beechcraft Baron | Beech 95 used as Birddog

Air New Zealand Link Beechcraft 1900 | Beechcraft 1900D at Wellington International Airport

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.

* 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

* Beechcraft Model 73 Jet Mentor Prototype for two seat tandem jet trainer.

* 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.

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