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.

Kurt Russell is shown in an opening scene piloting a Beechcraft Bonanza.

Along with Beechcraft and Cessna, it is considered one of the " Big Three " in the field of general aviation manufacturing.

As well as using the default aircraft, add-on planes can be downloaded or bought, which can then be installed into Microsoft Flight Simulator, such as the Beechcraft 1900D pictured above, which is an add-on aircraft.

The airport is served by Air New Zealand subsidiary Eagle Airways, with direct flights using Beechcraft 1900D aircraft to Auckland and Wellington

In the first quarter of 2007 Raytheon sold its aircraft operations, which is now operating as Hawker Beechcraft.

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

* 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.

Coulier is a private pilot who owns and flies a Beechcraft B35.

* July 31 – Country music star Jim Reeves and his manager die in the crash of a Beechcraft Debonair Reeves is piloting near Brentwood, Tennessee.

* It is believed that world-famous singer Jim Reeves was suffering from spatial disorientation when his Beechcraft aircraft crashed in the Brentwood area of Nashville, Tennessee during a violent thunderstorm on Friday 31st July 1964, claiming the lives of both Reeves and his pianist Dean Manuel.

Currently, RMN has no fixed wing patrol aircraft and is dependent on the RMAF ’ s fleet of four Beechcraft B200T maritime patrol aircraft to execute long-range patrols.

There is currently a plan to move all small private aircraft ( such as Beechcraft B-200 and Cessna C-90 ) operations from CSI Airport to Juhu Aerodrome to decongest CSI Airport.

* 7 Beechcraft 200 Super King Air 1 is leased by Emergency Health Services in Nova Scotia, Canada

Elliott Aviation is a chain of fixed base operators ( FBOs ) representing Beechcraft and Socata products.

The Garmin G1000 is generally certified on new general aviation aircraft, including Beechcraft, Cessna, Diamond, Cirrus Design, Mooney, Piper, Quest Aircraft ( the Kodiak 100 ), and Tiger.

He is en route in his private Beechcraft Baron.

Currently, the largest aircraft regularly using the airport is the Beechcraft 1900D, although a recent runway upgrade will now allow Bombardier Dash 8s and weight restricted ATR 72s to land.

Nuuk Airport is also home to the Beechcraft King Air B200 " Amaalik ", used for air ambulance flights and occasional charters.

There is a V-tailed version of the Beechcraft Bonanza light aircraft.

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

Beechcraft AT-11 Kansan, Cessna UC-78B Bobcat, Consolidated B-24J Liberator, Culver PQ-14B Cadet, Douglas C-47 Skytrain, Douglas A-26 Invader ( A-26C ), Fairchild PT-19A Cornell, Fairchild PT-26 Cornell, Fieseler Fi-103-A1 V-1 Buzz Bomb, Fi-156 Storch, Focke-Wulf Fw 44J Stieglitz, Globe KD6G-2, Hawker Hurricane MK. II, Mosaine-Saulnier MS-500 Criquet, North American B-25J Mitchell, RadioPlane OQ-19, Ruhrstahl SD 1400 Fritz X, Ryan PT-22 Recruit, Schweizer TG-3A, Taylorcarft TG-6, WACO UPF-7, WACO CG-4A ( nose ) Hadrain.

The Beechcraft Model 18 and many modern military aircraft such as the American F-14, F-15, and F / A-18 use this configuration.

Following the demise of Swift Aire after an unsuccessful merger with Golden Gate Airlines, Wings West Airlines established its headquarters in San Luis Obispo and operated several different turboprop aircraft types on behalf of American Eagle including the BAe Jetstream 31 and 32 series, Beechcraft 99, Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner and Saab 340.

Other past airlines included Swift Aire operating Fokker F-27 turboprops as well as Nord 262 turboprops and DeHavilland Heron prop aircraft, Apollo Airways with Handley Page Jetstream turboprops, Wings West Airlines operating as American Eagle with Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner, BAe Jetstream 31 and Saab 340 turboprops, West Air operating as United Express with BAe Jetstream 31 and Embraer EMB-110 turboprops, and Mesa Air also operating as United Express with Beechcraft 1900 turboprops.

US Airways Express ( Air Midwest ) using Beechcraft 1900 aircraft replaced American Connection with service to Kansas City and St. Louis.

Skyway planned to transition to an all-jet fleet by obtaining additional 328JET aircraft, purchasing German manufacturer Fairchild Dornier's planned 44-seat version, known as the 428JET, and phasing out the Beechcraft 1900.

Most versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator include some of the world's most popular aircraft from different categories, such as the Mooney Bravo and Beechcraft Baron 58, which fall into the general aviation category, the Airbus A321 and Boeing 737, which fall into the civil jets category, the Robinson R22, which falls into the helicopter category, and many other planes commonly used around the world.

In October 1993 CHS Aviation added two Cessna 208 Caravans and a Beechcraft B200 King Air to its general aviation fleet, to provide charter services to Southern Sudan for the SPLA.

At this time the company also entered the general aviation market when it became the Australian distributor for Beechcraft in 1959.

It has longstanding collaborative relationships with Airbus North America, Boeing, Bombardier-Learjet, Cessna, Hawker Beechcraft, Spirit AeroSystems, and other Wichita aviation concerns.

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

* C-6 Ute, a military version of the Beechcraft King Air airplane

* C-12 Huron, a logistics support aircraft of the U. S. Military ( military versions of the Beechcraft Super King Air )

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.

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

Beech became President of the Curtiss-Wright's airplane division and VP of sales, but became dissatisfied with being so far removed from aircraft production and quit to form Beechcraft, using the original Travel Air facilities and employing many of the same people.

In 2002, the Beechcraft brand was revived to again designate the Wichita-produced aircraft.

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

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 short range commuter aircraft

Twin piston-engined aircraft made by Cessna, Piper, Britten-Norman, and Beechcraft are also in use as short haul, short range commuter type aircraft.

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

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

* Beechcraft C-12 Huron, a series of twin-engine turboprop aircraft

He was killed on 5 May 1941 while flight-testing a Beechcraft AT-10 Wichita advanced two-engine training aircraft at Wichita Army Airfield, Kansas.

The aircraft corporations Stearman, Cessna, Mooney and Beechcraft were all founded in Wichita in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

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.

The PA-23 Apache was one of the first aircraft associated with the term " air taxi ", although it was superseded in that role by faster and more spacious designs from competitors Beechcraft and Cessna.