Beechcraft was not Beech's first company, as he had previously formed Travel Air in 1924 and the design numbers used at Beechcraft followed the sequence started at Travel Air, and were then continued at Curtiss-Wright, after Travel Air had been absorbed into the much larger company in 1929.

After the war, the Staggerwing was replaced by the revolutionary Beechcraft Bonanza with a distinctive V-tail.

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

Randy Groom, now President of Groom Aviation LLC, was President from 2003 to 2007, when Raytheon sold Raytheon Aircraft to Hawker Beechcraft.

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

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.

On February 8, 1980, Beech Aircraft Corporation was purchased by the Raytheon Corporation and later renamed Hawker Beechcraft.

The PA-23 Apache was one of the first aircraft associated with the term " air taxi ", although it was superseded in that role by faster and more spacious designs from competitors Beechcraft and Cessna.

During the Johnson Administration, the United States Air Force acquired a Beechcraft King Air B90 which was designated as VC-6A.

He was flying a private Beechcraft Baron directly over New York City on the morning of September 11, 2001.

The aircraft was a Beechcraft Bonanza, registered D-EHEX, which he named Die Dicke ( Fatty ).

On December 21, 2006, it was announced that Big Sky Airlines would become a Delta Connection carrier, using eight Beechcraft 1900 turboprops out of Billings, MT, Billings Logan International Airport.

* A United Nations 10-seater Beechcraft airplane carrying Tajik opposition leader Sayed Abdullo Nuri and seven other Tajik passengers from Mashhad, Iran to Taloqan, Afghanistan was intercepted by Taliban aircraft and forced to land in Shindand.

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.

Royale Airlines, a commuter air carrier that was based in Louisiana, also served the airport with Beechcraft and Embraer EMB-110 " Bandeirante " turboprop flights nonstop to Houston and New Orleans.

In 2006 the product line was sold to a new company to be known as Hawker Beechcraft, owned by Onex Partners and Goldman Sachs.

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 aircraft was insured, and Reeve bought a twin-engined Beechcraft and a Lockheed Electra 10-B NC14994 to replace the DC-3, which subsequently repaired and eventually sold to Los Angeles Air Service

Curtis C-46 Commando. Douglas DC-6. Beechcraft E-50, similar to the D-50. In 1957, the Distant Early Warning line was being constructed, bringing a boom to Reeve Aleutian.

In January 1959 a Beechcraft D-50 Twin Bonanza was purchased.

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.

The type was deemed airworthy and restrictions removed after Beechcraft issued a structural modification as an Airworthiness Directive.

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

Air Gabon was founded in 1951 as Compagnie Aerienne Gabonaise operating regional flights out of Libreville using Beechcraft and DeHavilland aircraft.

The airline was founded in La Paz, Mexico in 1960 as an air taxi operator using a fleet of Cessna and Beechcraft airplanes, initially known as Servicios Aéreos.

Since its inception Beechcraft has resided in Wichita, Kansas, also the home of chief competitor Cessna, the birthplace of Learjet and of Stearman, whose trainers were used in large numbers during WW2.

Cessna and Hawker Beechcraft remain based in Wichita today, along with Learjet and Spirit AeroSystems, and both Airbus and Boeing maintain a workforce in Wichita.

During the April 13 – 15, 2012 tornado outbreak, a tornado struck Wichita on April 14 on the southeast side of Wichita, destroying numerous residences and damaging Spirit AeroSystems, Boeing, Kansas Aviation Museum, McConnell Air Force Base, Hawker Beechcraft.

Bombardier Learjet, Cessna, and Hawker Beechcraft are based in Wichita, along with Spirit AeroSystems, and both Airbus and Boeing maintain a large work force in Wichita.

Cessna Aircraft Field and Beech Factory Airport, operated by manufacturers Cessna and Hawker Beechcraft, respectively, lie in east Wichita.

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

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

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

From 1991 until 1997, Air Midwest operated 12 Beechcraft 1900s flying from its Kansas City hub as USAir Express.

Subsequently, Air Midwest ( a Mesa Air Group subsidiary ), acting under a codeshare agreement with U. S. Airways and operating as US Airways Express, served Kansas City, Missouri from Manhattan, Kansas with three daily flights using 19-passenger Beechcraft 1900D turboprop aircraft.

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

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

* Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing ( 1932 )

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.

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

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

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.

Staggerwing production ended in 1946 ( to be replaced by the Beechcraft Bonanza ) with approximately 750 built.

* On October 27, 2011, at around 4: 15pm, a Northern Thunderbird Air Beechcraft King Air 100 attempted to land on the south runway but missed by about 900 metres, hitting a lamppost and car, then crashing on nearby Russ Baker Way and Gilbert Road at the west end of Dinsmore Bridge.

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

In the 1970s, The Tim Conway Show paired Tim with Joe Flynn of McHale's Navy in a sitcom as owners-pilots of a one-plane ( a Beechcraft 18 ) airline operated by the pair.

* 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.

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.

Louise Thaden and Blanche Noyes flew a Beechcraft, powered by a Wright Whirlwind engine, from FBF to Los Angeles, California, in 14: 55: 01, and established an East-West transcontinental speed record.

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

* Beechcraft T-6 Texan II, a turboprop aircraft used by the United States Air Force and the United States Navy

* December 7 – An Air Saint Martin Beechcraft 1900D chartered by the Government of France to return illegal immigrants from French territory to Haiti drifts off course and crashes into a mountain near Bell-Anse, Haiti, while on approach to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, killing all 20 people on board.

* November 19 – While landing at Quincy Regional Airport in Quincy, Illinois, United Express Flight 5925, a Beechcraft 1900 operated by Great Lakes Aviation, collides at an intersection between two runways with a Beechcraft King Air on its takeoff roll, killing all 12 people aboard the United Express flight and both people in the King Air.

Westerby pursues Ricardo, by ferry, across the Mekong River into Thailand ; Ricardo tells Westerby that Tiu, on behalf of Ko, hired Ricardo to fly opium into China and pick up a package, paying Ricardo's debts as an advance for the job ; instead of completing the job, Ricardo stole the opium and the Beechcraft airplane and went into hiding.