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Old December 22nd 06, 07:18 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Jim Macklin
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Default Beechcraft sold

Premier jet is an original Beech design.
Raytheon Aircraft Company
Beechcraft Premier IA ... 08/03/2006 -, Guardian LP
Services Places Order for Nine Beechcraft Premier IAs. .
08/03/2006 -, Hawker 850XP to Tour South ...
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More than 70 years ago, Walter and Olive Ann Beech
founded Beech Aircraft ... Services Obtains STC for
Auxiliary Ground Heat on Beechcraft Premier I/IA ...
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
ps.com...
| As an instructor, I get to fly a lot of different
airplanes and talk to
| a lot of owners. I'm convinced that the only people who
hate Beech
| airplanes are those who haven't flown them.
|
| I didn't say I hated Beech -- far from it. Although none
of their
| birds fits my current mission, which requires lots of
economical
| lifting capacity and a wide CG range -- I would LOVE to
own a Bonanza
| some day.
|
| What I said was that they have become irrelevant. They
sell a tiny
| number of aircraft each year (thanks to their outrageous
pricing), and
| the last new aircraft design to come out of Beech
was....what? I
| can't think of anything new since the Starship debacle of
the early
| 1980s.
|
| Since that occurred right after I graduated from
college -- and I'm now
| 48 years old -- I think I'm safe in saying that Beech has
become
| irrelevant to aviation. If they went away tomorrow, we
would all shed
| a tear for the Beech line -- but it would have zero impact
on general
| aviation.
|
| The same cannot be said, for example, of Cessna, Piper,
Cirrus or
| Columbia.
| --
| Jay Honeck
| Iowa City, IA
| Pathfinder N56993
| www.AlexisParkInn.com
| "Your Aviation Destination"
|