Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in
news:p7cg0004sq@drn.newsguy.com:
> In article <XnsA8998F6A4BB9Dnoemailattnet@216.166.97.131>, Mitchell
> Holman says...
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>>Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in
>>news:p7c4r902flp@drn.newsguy.com:
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>>> In article <XnsA8994ABC2FDF2noemailattnet@216.166.97.131>, Mitchell
>>> Holman says...
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>>> 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.
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>> No?
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> 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-news/2014-10-02/quarter-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.
>
>
> 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
> military jets.
>
Something to do with the epoxy carbon
fiber construction, IIRC.
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