Beechcraft was founded in Wichita, Kansas in 1932 by Walter H. Beech and his wife Olive Ann Mellor Beech.

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The PA-23 Apache was one of the first aircraft associated with the term " air taxi ", although it was superseded in that role by faster and more spacious designs from competitors Beechcraft and Cessna.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

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

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.

* 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.

While the first few " Beechcraft " were built in the vacant Cessna Aircraft plant, which had also closed during the depression, Beech later leased and then bought the Travel Air plant from Curtis Wright and moved his factory to this plant.

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

* February 21 – Australia experiences its first fatal airline accident since 1968 when an Advance Aviation Beechcraft King Air 200 suffers the failure of an engine shortly after takeoff from Sydney Airport in Mascot, Australia, due to water in the fuel tank and crashes into a seawall while trying to return to the airport.

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

Allegheny Airlines ( now US Airways ) and Henson began one of the world's first code sharing arrangements in 1967, and Henson re-branded itself as an Allegheny Commuter carrier using Beechcraft 99 aircraft.

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.

The first squadron had Douglas DC-3, Beechcraft C45, L-5 Sentinel, Rearwin, Fairchild.

The first of three Embraer ERJ 135s the airline leased from Régional Compagnie Aérienne Européenne, intended to replace the Beechcraft 1900D park, was received in.

DAT's first scheduled flight from Antwerp to Amsterdam on behalf of KLM took place on 19 September 1967 ; for that purpose two Beechcraft Queen Air feederliners had been acquired ( some sources erroneously mention 3 of the type ).

Garmin recently announced its first G1000 retrofit program for the Beechcraft C90 King Air in 2007 followed by the Beechcraft B200 King Air in 2009.

Captain Marciano Veiga piloted the first flight at the controls of a twin-engine Beechcraft ( named Açor ) with seven passengers.

Air traffic control assigns the jumbo to enter the pattern first, followed by the Beechcraft.

The airline first operated the flights with the Beechcraft 1900, and later with the Saab 340 before service ended in November 2008.

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

On September 3, 1967, Mohammed bin Laden was killed when his company airplane, a Beechcraft crashed during landing in Oom, ' Asir Province, in southwest Saudi Arabia.

One of the founders of Travel Air was Walter H. Beech who quit shortly after it was amalgamated into Curtiss Wright and later formed the Beechcraft company where he would continue the numbering sequence with the Beechcraft 17 Staggerwing.

The company also operated an Aerostar 601P from Mackay, and two Beechcraft B58 Barons from Archerfield Airport in Brisbane.

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