That's not a Beech 17 - it's a kit-built, all-composite (fiberglas) modern design of similar configuration.

Note the lack of interplane struts, the single-strut main landing gear, and the smooth surface of the wings and fuselage (not fabric over ribs and stringers).

I forget what the designer called this "retro" design, but I saw one on display at the kit-seller's booth at Oshkosh '96, so they've been around for a while.

Mike

In article >,
mjacobslaw > wrote:

> That's not a Beech 17 - it's a kit-built, all-composite (fiberglas) modern
> design of similar configuration.
>
> Note the lack of interplane struts, the single-strut main landing gear, and
> the smooth surface of the wings and fuselage (not fabric over ribs and
> stringers).
>
> I forget what the designer called this "retro" design, but I saw one on
> display at the kit-seller's booth at Oshkosh '96, so they've been around for
> a while.
>
> Mike

"Lionheart."

Orval Fairbairn > wrote in
:

> In article >,
> mjacobslaw > wrote:
>
>> That's not a Beech 17 - it's a kit-built, all-composite (fiberglas)
>> modern design of similar configuration.
>>
>> Note the lack of interplane struts, the single-strut main landing
>> gear, and the smooth surface of the wings and fuselage (not fabric
>> over ribs and stringers).
>>
>> I forget what the designer called this "retro" design, but I saw one
>> on display at the kit-seller's booth at Oshkosh '96, so they've been
>> around for a while.
>>
>> Mike
>
> "Lionheart."
>



"Unfortunately, the Lionheart is currently out of production."

http://www.griffon-aerospace.com/lionheart.html