Beechcraft

The Beech Aircraft Corporation, now the Beechcraft Division of Raytheon, is a manufacturer of general aviation and military aircraft, ranging from light single engine aircraft to business jets and light military transports. Beech airplanes, called Beechcrafts by the company and their many fans, have a long-standing reputation as being among the best made aircraft available. They are also invariable among the most expensive planes in their class.

Beechcraft was founded in 1932 by Walter H. Beech and his wife Olive Ann. The Beeches began operations in an idle Cessna factory. With designer Ted Wells, they developed their first aircraft, the classic Beech Staggerwing model 17, which flew for the first time in November 1932. Over 750 Staggerwings were built, with 270 manufactured for the U.S. Army during World War II.

After the war, the Staggerwing was replaced by the revolutionary Beechcraft Bonanza. Perhaps the best known Beech aircraft, the single-engine Bonanza has been manufactured for nearly 60 years. Other important Beech planes are the King Air line of twin-engine turboprops, in production since 1964, and the Baron, a twin-engine variant of the Bonanza.

In 1950, Olive Ann Beech was installed as president and CEO of the company, after the sudden death of her husband Walter from a heart attack on November 29th of that year. She continued as CEO until Beech was purchased by Raytheon Company on February 8, 1980.

In 1994, Raytheon merged Beech into the Hawker product line they had acquired the previous year from British Aerospace, forming Raytheon Aircraft Company. This was a very unpopular move among the Beechcraft faithful and in 2002 the merger decision was reversed, reviving Beechcraft as a brand. Today the company continues as the Beechcraft Division of Raytheon Aircraft. Since its inception Beech has resided in Wichita, Kansas, also the home of chief competitor Cessna Aircraft Company.

Aircraft products

Beechcraft aircraft include:

Civilian

  • Model 17 Staggerwing
1943 Beech D.17S Staggerwing.
  • Model 18
  • Model 23 Musketeer and Sundowner
  • Model 24 Sierra
  • Model 33 Debonair
  • Model 35 Bonanza
  • Model 36 Bonanza
  • Model 50 Twin Bonanza
  • Model 55 & 58 Baron
  • Model 60 Duke
  • Model 65 Queen Air
  • Model 76 Duchess
  • Model 77 Skipper
  • Model 90 King Air
  • Model 95 Travel Air
  • Model 99 Airliner
  • Model 100 King Air and Model 200 & 300 Super King Air
  • Model 400 Beechjet
  • Model 1900 Commuter
  • Model 2000 Starship Beechcraft Model 2000 Starship.

Military

  • XA-38 Grizzly
  • AT-7 Navigator
  • C-6 Ute
  • C-12 Huron
  • C-43 Traveler
  • C-45 Expeditor
  • CT-128 Expeditor
  • CT-134 Musketeer
  • CT-145 Super Kingair
  • RC-12 Guard Rail
  • T-1 Jayhawk
  • T-34 Mentor
  • T-42 Cochise
  • U-8 Seminole
  • U-21 Ute

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U-21 Ute. The knife-box is one of the most charming of the minor pieces of furniture which we owe to the artistic taste and mechanical ingenuity of the English cabinet-makers of the last quarter of the 18th century. U-8 Seminole. Some of those which have survived, such as that of Sir Thomas Bodley in the Bodleian library, possess locks with an extremely elaborate mechanism contrived in the under-side of the lid. T-42 Cochise. Its place has been taken in modern life by the safe. T-34 Mentor. A strong-box is a receptacle for money, deeds and securities.

T-1 Jayhawk. Shoeboxes have long been cherished for their versatility and are commonly used for many tasks around the house, such as holding trading cards, photos, and just about anything else. RC-12 Guard Rail. It is commonly acquired when one purchases a pair of shoes. CT-145 Super Kingair. A shoebox is, exactly as its name implies, a cardboard box which holds a pair of shoes. CT-134 Musketeer. It may take a very modest form, covered in leather and lined with satin, or it may reach the monumental proportions of the jewel cabinets which were made for Marie Antoinette, one of which is at Windsor, and another at Versailles, the work of Schwerdfeger as cabinetmaker, Degault as miniature-painter, and Thomire as chaser.

CT-128 Expeditor. A jewel-box is a receptacle for trinkets, not only jewels. C-45 Expeditor. gold box was sold by auction after his death for £ 2000. C-43 Traveler. George, duke of Cambridge (1819-1904), possessed an important collection; a Louis XV. C-12 Huron. Now that the snuffbox is no longer used it is collected by wealthy amateurs or deposited in museums, and especially artistic examples command large sums.

C-6 Ute. Rundell and Bridge, the court jewellers, were paid £ 8205 for snuff-boxes for foreign ministers. AT-7 Navigator. At the coronation of George IV of England, Messrs. XA-38 Grizzly. To be invited to take a pinch from a monarchs snuff-box was a distinction almost equivalent to having one's ear pulled by Napoleon. Model 2000 Starship Beechcraft Model 2000 Starship. . It is, indeed, to the cessation of the habit of snuff-taking that we may trace much of modern lavishness in the distribution of decorations.

Model 1900 Commuter. After snuff-taking had ceased to be general it lingered for some time among diplomats, either because as Talleyrand explained they found a ceremonious pinch to be a useful aid to reflection in a business interview, or because monarchs retained the habit of bestowing snuff-boxes upon ambassadors and other intermediaries, who could not well be honored in any other way. Model 400 Beechjet. Costly gold boxes were often enriched with enamels or set with diamonds or other precious stones, and sometimes the lid was adorned with a portrait, a classical vignette, or a tiny portrait miniature, often some choice work by an old master. Model 100 King Air and Model 200 & 300 Super King Air. Mother-of-pearl was also used, together with silver, in its natural state or gilded. Model 99 Airliner. Tortoise-shell was a favorite, and owing to its limpid lustre it was exceedingly effective.

Model 95 Travel Air. From the cheapest wood that was suitable at one time - potato-pulp was extensively used - to a frame of gold encased with diamonds, a great variety of materials was employed. Model 90 King Air. The jeweller, the enameller and the artist bestowed infinite pains upon what was quite as often a delicate bijou as a piece of utility; fops and great personages possessed numbers of snuff-boxes, rich and more ordinary, their selection being regulated by their dress and by the relative splendour of the occasion. Model 77 Skipper. It long survived his sword, and was in frequent use until nearly the middle of the 19th century. Model 76 Duchess. The snuff-box, which is now little more than a charming relic of a disagreeable practice, was throughout the larger part of the 18th century the indispensable companion of every man of birth and breeding.

Model 65 Queen Air. But it is as a receptacle for snuff that the box has taken its most distinguished and artistic forms in Western culture. Model 60 Duke. These boxes are ordinarily portable, but sometimes form the top of a table. Model 55 & 58 Baron. In the 18th century no lady was without her work-box, and, especially in the second half of that period, much taste and elaborate pains were expended upon the case, which was often exceedingly dainty and elegant. Model 50 Twin Bonanza. The date of its introduction is in considerable doubt, but 17th-century examples have come down to us, with covers of silk, stitched with beads and adorned with embroidery.

Model 36 Bonanza. It is usually fitted with a tray divided into many small compartments, for needles, reels of silk and cotton and other necessaries of stitchery. Model 35 Bonanza. Of the boxes which possess some attraction beyond their immediate purpose the feminine work-box is the most common. Model 33 Debonair. . Model 24 Sierra. Its uses are innumerable, and the name, preceded by a qualifying adjective, has been given to many objects of artistic or antiquarian interest.

Model 23 Musketeer and Sundowner. Whatever its shape or purpose or the material of which it is fashioned, it is the direct descendant of the chest, one of the most ancient articles of domestic furniture. Model 18. A box normally may be opened by raising, sliding or removing the lid, which may be hinged and/or fastened by a catch, hasp, or lock. Model 17 Staggerwing. Nevertheless, a box may have a horizontal cross-section that is square, elongated, round or oval; sloped or domed top surfaces, or non-vertical sides. When no shape is described, a typical cuboid box may be expected.

Boxes are highly variable receptacles.