Miloch wrote in
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In article , Mitchell
Holman says...

Miloch wrote in
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In article , Mitchell
Holman says...




Someone has one of these in where I live...see it every now and
then.




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I thought they were all recalled from the
private market because of liability concerns.

No?



There must be at least one still flying...saw one overhead about a
year ago...ran to get my camera but it was gone by the time I got back
out.

From
https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-n...r-century-late
r-starships-still-fly

Faced with the formidable cost of supporting such a small fleet, the
manufacturer decided to pull the plug on the program and moved to
decommission and destroy the aircraft under its control. As leases
ended, the aircraft were flown to the Evergreen Air Center at Marana,
Ariz., for parting out and incineration. Several were donated to
museums, which promised never to allow the aircraft to fly again. Six
other owners traded in their Starships as well. In the end, the
majority of the fleet could be found at Evergreen nose-to-nose
awaiting disposal, and Beech long ago stopped talking about the
aircraft.

Owners Keep ’em Flying

Yet, a handful of Starships escaped the purge and are still racking up
flight hours. According to the FAA, five Starships currently hold
active standard registration, including one based in Germany. Their
owners remain passionate about the aircraft, once derisively described
by a former Beechcraft president as looking like a Klingon battle
cruiser, and have gone to great lengths to keep them flying, long
after their manufacturer left them virtual orphans. Of the remaining
airframes, there are two categories: those that never left private
ownership and those former Raytheon-owned Starships rescued from
“death row,” which had their spars drilled, similar to decommissioned
military jets.



Something to do with the epoxy carbon
fiber construction, IIRC.