Beecraft Queen Bee | |
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The Queen Bee in flight | |
Role | Four-seat cabin monoplane |
National origin | United States |
Manufacturer | Bee Aviation Associates |
Designer | William S. Chana, Ken S. Coward |
First flight | 1960 |
Number built | 1 |
The Beecraft Queen Bee was an American V-tailed four-seat cabin monoplane, designed and built by Bee Aviation Associates (Beecraft).[1]
The Queen Bee was an all-metal cantilever low-wing monoplane powered by a Lycoming O-320-A1A flat-four piston engine.[1] It had a V-tail and an electrically retractable tricycle landing gear.[1] The canopy shared a similar shape as the Ryan Navion. The wings were outfitted with fiberglass tip tanks. A 180 hp Lycoming O-360-A-1-A was planned as an optional engine.[2]
Only a prototype was built and the aircraft did not enter production. The Queen Bee prototype was destroyed when the original San Diego Aerospace Museum burned down in 1978.[3]
Data from Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1961–62[4]
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