Anyone like Beech 18s? :)

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Yes the three CAS photos were taken at Duxford. Remember them first arriving and causing quite a stir as they were something ‘new’ there.

I agree but only in stock configuration. I think the extended wing tip tri-gear variants have lost something in the looks department. That’ll teach me to look won’t it? I’ve just re-read the thread and realise I said much the same thing nearly two years ago.

http://https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Southern+comfort+beech+18&client=safari&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=zDPEUbmtAsTL0QWZxoGgBA&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAA&biw=1024&bih=644#biv=i%7C6%3Bd%7CcQ_hH1gLQeGI-M%3A this is a beech I would love to see in the flesh! First run in a while last week as a previous thread on here

the first war bird I flew in when I was 15 with the late great Pete Treadaway snr in formation with the equally late great Norman Lee’s Pete was lost to us all not long after that flight a real Gent
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Only found this thread due to the recent post by Howard500!

Back in March I was fortunate to attend the TICO Warbird Airshow in Florida and what Matt Younkin does with his Beech is nothing short of remarkable!

Here’s a link to the photos on my website.

http://www.jetstreamimages.com/gallery_568766.html

Cheers
Tim

sorry to bring up an old thread but it looks intrest a bit of a beech nut as I’m very lucky to work on G-BKRN And G-BKGL Will Post Some Photos When I learn How.

The -18 is a nice looking machine until people mess about with it. Maybe I’m biased but I don’y like the look of the pointy nosed Tri gear ones with the extended wing tips those things always look as though they were a lash up fix to an aerodynamic problem.

The pix of the Japanese Beech 18 is I believe with the Japanese Coast Guard and they also got tri-gear JA5150/MA150.

Chris

The first image was taken at a Cranfield PFA Rally probably in the 80s……..

Yes Phil, I did. I wonder how many realise that the banner had been draped over it as a jolly jape though? Amazing what a spot of paint and polish can acheive…:D

compare the two

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same plane………..i suspect you knew that though didn’t you

Beech Restorations june 2011

www.beechrestorations.com

Oh I found some more…

beech

N15750 at Baginton in 1968

G-AXWL at Heathrow on 30 August 1971

N4910N at Harlingen, Texas, in August 1974

excellent

keep them coming please

beech

Here’s one at the airport I live on.

thought your name rang a bell

http://www.cfww2.com/forums/showthread.php?717-Beech-18-Playhouse./page1

philip

Here’s a few from my slide collection

N15750 at Baginton in 1968

G-AXWL at Heathrow on 30 August 1971

N4910N at Harlingen, Texas, in August 1974

Here’s one at the airport I live on.

pretty 18

ours needs a repaint – acid rain has wrecked the paint on the wings

plenty of rubbing down to do next weekend.

ho hum

A nice Beech from an Airshow in Tacoma this past weekend.

here is the thread

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=109058&highlight=beech+restorations

compare to the pic of G-BKRN on this site to see what we started with

http://www.oldprops.ukhome.net/Beech%2018%20Photographs.html

check out www.beechrestorations.com

philip