Author: BEECH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
Title: Beechcraft Model C50 Twin Bonanza Price List and Specifications (May 1, 1955)
Description: Wichita, KS: Beech Aircraft Corporation, 1955. Hardcover. This is a price list / brochure - one small sheet folded once. The price list is in Very Good condition. There is some light creasing and wrinkling to the brochure and a airplane sales company ink stamped name and address on the front cover." The Twin Bonanza was first flown on November 15, 1949 after rapid development, begun only in April of that year. The Model 50's type certificate was awarded in 1951, and production began the same year. The United States Army adopted the Twin Bonanza as the L-23 Seminole utility transport, making it the largest fixed-wing aircraft in its inventory at that time. According to Ralph Harmon, the airplane's designer, during an initial demonstration flight for the Army, Claude Palmer, a Beechcraft Demonstration Test Pilot, crashed while trying to land over a 50-foot (15 m) tree line while full of soldiers and sandbags. Everyone on board walked away from the crash. The Army was impressed with the structural strength of the Twin Bonanza, eventually purchasing 216 of the 994 examples produced. It was also the first twin-engined aircraft in its class to be offered to the business market, but the Korean War was raging in the early 1950s and the US Army took almost the entire production for 1952 and 1953." (from Wikipedia). Very Good .
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Title: Beechcraft Model C50 Twin Bonanza Price List and Specifications (May 1, 1955)
Description: Wichita, KS: Beech Aircraft Corporation, 1955. Hardcover. This is a price list / brochure - one small sheet folded once. The price list is in Very Good condition. There is some light creasing and wrinkling to the brochure and a airplane sales company ink stamped name and address on the front cover." The Twin Bonanza was first flown on November 15, 1949 after rapid development, begun only in April of that year. The Model 50's type certificate was awarded in 1951, and production began the same year. The United States Army adopted the Twin Bonanza as the L-23 Seminole utility transport, making it the largest fixed-wing aircraft in its inventory at that time. According to Ralph Harmon, the airplane's designer, during an initial demonstration flight for the Army, Claude Palmer, a Beechcraft Demonstration Test Pilot, crashed while trying to land over a 50-foot (15 m) tree line while full of soldiers and sandbags. Everyone on board walked away from the crash. The Army was impressed with the structural strength of the Twin Bonanza, eventually purchasing 216 of the 994 examples produced. It was also the first twin-engined aircraft in its class to be offered to the business market, but the Korean War was raging in the early 1950s and the US Army took almost the entire production for 1952 and 1953." (from Wikipedia). Very Good .
Keywords: Aeronautics / Astronautics Beech Aircraft Corporation Beechcraft Twin-bonanza Aviation Advertising Price Lists Aeronautics / Astronautics
Price: US$ 20.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 40415
- Book number: 40415
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