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Pushers, pt 2 - Beech 2000 Starships.jpg (1/1)
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In article , Mitchell Holman
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Pushers, pt 2 - Beech 2000 Starships.jpg (1/1)
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news In article , Mitchell Holman says... Someone has one of these in where I live...see it every now and then. * I thought they were all recalled from the private market because of liability concerns. No? |
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Pushers, pt 2 - Beech 2000 Starships.jpg (1/1)
In article , Mitchell Holman
says... Miloch wrote in news In article , Mitchell Holman says... Someone has one of these in where I live...see it every now and then. * 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...hips-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. * |
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Pushers, pt 2 - Beech 2000 Starships.jpg (1/1)
Miloch wrote in
news In article , Mitchell Holman says... Miloch wrote in news In article , Mitchell Holman says... Someone has one of these in where I live...see it every now and then. * 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. |
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