Beechcraft Twin Bonanza

what is it?

The Beechcraft Model 50 Twin Bonanza is a small twin-engined aircraft designed by Beechcraft as an executive transport for the business market. It was developed to fill a gap in Beechcraft's product line between the single-engined Model 35 Bonanza and the larger Model 18. The Twin Bonanza is dissimilar to the Bonanza, being much larger and heavier and using more powerful engines, while in its earliest form having only half the passenger capacity of the Model 18.

🔎How to recognise it: 2 piston engines with propellers · 13.8 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 344 km/htop speed
• seats 5passengers
• size 2,858 kgmax take-off weight
• built 975made in total

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🎂First flew 77 years ago, in 1949.
• 🏎️Top speed is 2.6× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 13.8 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.

piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.

spec sheet

first flight

1949

introduced

1951

status

still flying

number built

975

role

utility aircraft

origin

🇺🇸 United States

makers

Beechcraft

engines

2× Lycoming GO-480-C206

crew

1

passengers

5

length

9.6 m

wingspan

13.8 m

height

3.5 m

max take-off weight

2,858 kg

top speed

344 km/h

cruise speed

327 km/h

range

—

ceiling

6,096 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.