Beechcraft Starship | Beechcraft Model 2000 Starship

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

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

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

* 2000 Australia Beechcraft King Air crash

It began consolidating all of its remaining Beechcraft 1900 turboprops into Air Midwest, completing the consolidation in 2000.

The service to Notodden started in 2000 ; a Cessna 441 was acquired in 2003, and from 2006 the company has used two Beechcraft.

* Model 2000 Starship Two-turboprop-engine utility aircraft with canard configuration and pusher propellers.

* August 29-Beech Model 115 Starship

He is best known for directing the American feature films RoboCop ( 1987 ), Total Recall ( 1990 ), Basic Instinct ( 1992 ), Starship Troopers ( 1997 ), and Hollow Man ( 2000 ).

* Erik Torjesen, lead guitarist and backup vocalist for Jefferson Starship Starship featuring Mickey Thomas from 1996 – 2000.

MicroProse also used many of the ideas in their 2000 Starship Troopers game.

* Starship Troopers: Terran Ascendancy ( 2000 )

The Gravitron ( later marketed as the Starship 2000 and the Starship 3000 and currently as the Starship 4000 ) is an amusement ride, most commonly found as a portable ride at fairs and carnivals.

Another tours Newfoundland every summer with Thomas Amusements, and is called Starship 2000.

Image: OC Fair gravitron. jpg | A Starship 2000 in Orange County, California

* Wisdom Rides ' Information Page for the Starship 2000

* Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles ( 1999 – 2000 ), Juan " Johnny " Rico