Beech Aero Club

Well, you know the rest. Here are a few interesting tidbits from you, our members. 63% of you have your instrument ticket, congrats! About 25% of you have been members since our first few months of operation in 2004. Almost 7% of our members report not owning an airplane. 81% of you prefer to keep a menu on the homepage over displaying the latest discussion forum topics. We have several members that have reported logging more than 10,000 hours which skews these results a little bit, but our average member has logged 1,758 hours. The median number of hours is 550. (Half have more, half have less.)

After my SPOT review was posted (3 days later to be exact), I received an email and phone call from their VP of Development. They are concerned with the performance I received and are trying to get to the bottom of it.

SPOT is a new product that is being marketed to the aviation community www.findmespot.com Some people have even suggested it as possible alternative to a 406 MHz ELT upgrade. I have tested it for over a month and it is NOT a replacement for an ELT.

The April edition of our monthly e-newsletter BACFire! was just sent. Hopefully it was somewhat informative and interesting. The last couple of months there has been some good feedback so keep it coming but besides asking for feedback.....

Ashley Palmer has resigned her position of Technical Director. Due to the demands of a new job and relocation she is unable to continue in that role. The Board is seeking interested members to step forward.

On April 18th and 19th the baby Beech line of planes will be formally welcomed into the Beechcraft Heritage Museum. By now, BAC members should have heard about the event and received an invitation.

The Musketeer is being donated by Robert Clark (BAC member)......

The latest issue of BACTalk (Winter/Spring 2008) is now available for download. This special edition includes member reviews of five EFB software solutions for home and in-cockpit use. Also, read about the Beech Heritage Museum taking in its first mouse! Regional Roundups, BACFest 2008 location preview, and more. Download your copy today!

This 37 page MUST-READ document is for all of our club members who desire to know the story behind the concept and development of our "Baby Beech" line of airplanes. The documentation was provided by Mike Rellihan.
Link: The Beechcraft Musketeers III

Here is an accompanying sales brochure with photos, previously posted in Technical/Downloads:
The 1970 Beechcraft Musketeers

Newly added on January 8th. Here is an accompanying 1964 Musketeer II sales brochure with photos, previously posted in Technical/Downloads:
The 1964 Musketeer II A23

And added on January 10, the 1972 A24R, when Beech officially changed the name to 'Sierra'. This is also posted in Downloads.
1972 A24R Sierra

Paul Werbin has furnished to us a copy of an article from the October 2007 issue of Professional Pilot which discusses the modification by Beechcraft in 1980 of a Sundowner to operate on liquid methane.

At BAC Fest 2007, Robin Thomas displayed his Sundowner with the latest iteration of the articulating wheel pants for our fixed-gear planes. Following some minor tweaking, they will be deciding whether or not to certify and market them.