Hey everyone!

My name is John Harvey and just found this place. Nice!

I'm a pilot for Flight Options and am PIC on the CE-750. I'm an ATP, and hold a MEII.

Last year I found myself in the position to buy a Bonanza. I shopped around for a few months and found this one. It's a 59 K model. io470. It has a bunch of mods, including; D'Shannon Engine baffle kit, Speed Slope windshield, Side glass, Center stack panel, Alternator conversion, Wet vac pump, Britton tip tanks. Avionics include Narco 800 series navs and coms. Apollo 618 Loran (could be for sale..... ) S-Tec 60-2 autopilot.

It just got out of it's first annual and it was mostly paperwork. It was missing the STC and 337 for the tip tanks.... UG!

Here's a picture.

John

Share a story? Or something learned?
Like, when your a flight instructor and you go home for Christmas in a 59 K Bo (not the one I own BTW) and you pack your cloths in a garbage bag. During the flight it falls to the floor in the back seat. When you put the gear down, it all gets tangled with the emergency gear down handle that fell open and wound everything up?
That kind of story?

John

Hi everyone. I'm a CPA in Shreveport, LA. 2007 was an incredible year at our house! I took my first GA flight, began my journey to a PPL and we welcomed home not just one, but two new babies (both in October). Can't wait to see what 2008 brings! Now pardon me while I brag on my little ones -

Hello all. I am an engineer and small business owner and CFI/CFII who has been flying since 1992 and is on his 5th airplane (3rd bonanza), a 2007 G36. My other (2) bonanzas were 36 bonanzas, one of which was turbonormalized. Almost 1/2 of my nearly 2700 hours has been in the bonanza, and I seem to be the only local instructor that knows them well enough.

The G36 is just as easy to fly as any bonanza. The glass panel makes the instruments a little "different", but it still flies the same. The Garmin autopilot is super smooth versus some of the Kings (although the Kings aren't bad). The G1000 is a Garmin 530 on steroids. I moaned at the insurance guys when I purchased the G36, and they were accomodating to only require a checkout by a "capable pilot", such as the Beech test pilots/staff for the best rate available. While it is a good idea to take a good class in the plane, it is by no means that earth-shattering to a capable pilot who has flown a Garmin 430/530 plane - so any of you guys who are looking to upgrade and are getting flack, there is a way to go.

Anyway, I have flown all over the eastern and middle half of the US, and the bonanza never ceases to amaze me how capable it is.

-Al

...Interior photo added. The panel is "stock".

Hi all, great to find some from the old beech-owners mailing list here, particularly Old Bob Siegfried who helped me master my old Trimble Approach GPS.

My wife and I fly a 1967 V35, which has taken us on many adventures from the East Coast to all over the US and the Caribbean. Our daughter has been flying in it since she was three weeks old. Recently she's become dissatisfied staying cooped up in the back seat, and wants to be up front where the action is. We have a great video with all of us flying up the Hudson River below the tops of the World Trade Center, a few months before the world as we knew it came to an end. I'll have to upload it to YouTube.

I was probably about my daughter's age when I first saw a Beechcraft ad in back of the National Geographic magazine. Perhaps some remember it - it had a picture of a V-tail flying into the sunset, and was accompanied by something that looked like a coupon meant to be cut out and mailed to Beech for information. The "coupon" said it would be a shame to cut up the National Geographic and encouraged the reader to simply write to them for information and pricing. Even though I was a few years old, I did - despite what a six year old's handwriting must have looked like, they wrote back!

Of course the price of a new V35 not only exceeded my piggy bank balance, the mind-boggling figure was surely more money than God. Nevertheless I resolved to own that airplane one day. Then there was that little problem about getting a pilot's certificate. So I lied about my age and I got a job delivering newspapers - $7.00 a week but tips bought it up to $12.00 on a good week. That wasn't going to be enough, so I also started cutting my neighborhood's lawns at $2.50 per. I was so young I had to reach up to push the mower. Surely parents would be thrown in jail today for permitting such abuse. Anyway, by the time I was fifteen I had three thousand dollars saved up. Having never before set foot in any sort of aircraft, I took my first flying lesson. Thirty dollars per hour for a C150 - ouch!

Fast forward thirty-five years or so, but I finally own my dream airplane.

Flying the V35 is as comfortable as sitting on your living room sofa. I've flown all sorts of airplanes and now fly for a major airline, but if I had all the money in the world, I would never want to own anything but a Beech. There's nothing like it.

Sorry no pictures as I only have dialup where I live. Thankfully the board lets me turn off avatars otherwise it would be an exercise in frustration.

A question: Before coming here I looked for the old beech-owners mailing list, hoping to find someone had the inclination to transition it to a proper PHP style forum, since a mailing list format is cumbersome by today's standards. Although I found a site that appears to be it (beechowners.com) apparently it's been down for a while. True?

Hi all,

I am one of the two Wiebener brothers on this board. I currently own a 1961 N35 Bonanza. My brother John, the older and wiser one, has a V35B. That's how I came to own a Bonanza. Once you ride in the best, you don't want to ride in the rest!

I bought my N35 with only 110 hours, and only about 10 hours in John's V35, and zero landings. And yet someone was foolish enough to insure me. I am a VFR only pilot, no IFR rating, yet. Someday I hope to find the time and money to get my rating but I don't find the VFR rating is slowing me down. I've only had to cancel a couple of trips due to weather.

My plane is pretty much stock. I've added BAS shoulder harnesses, a JPI engine analyzer, and GAMIjectors, but beyond that, it's almost exactly how I bought it 6.5 years ago. It's currently hangared at Centennial airport (KAPA) in Denver, CO.

I'm currently looking for a partner, since I don't fly enough to justify sole ownership. Dang work and life gets in the way of flying as much as I want. Information and more pictures of my plane are at: http://www.users.qwest.net/~rwieb/

I love the new site and look forward to some great discusions.

Robert Wiebener
N35 - N61GM - KAPA (Denver)

Daniel:

Point that winged baby south and come see us in Natchitoches. Nice place to visit with good food downtown, courtesy cars, and several Bonanza pilots (two on the board here).

Tom

I have been a partner in a S35 Bonanza based at Boeing Field in Seattle for about 9 years. I was renting some pretty awful planes in the Seattle area at some pretty unbelievable prices (I still haven't found a place more expensive to fly than Seattle) and decided that if I wanted to fly something decent, it was time to buy.

I looked at several partnerships in things like 182's, arrows, cherokee 6's, and then I happened on an ad in the paper for a Bonanza share. I drove down to the hangar and knew I had to have it before I even got out of my car! It was fresh out of the shop with new paint, new interior, new avionics and newer engine. Even though I was sold on it, the owner took me up for a demo flight,.. which made me need to buy it even more! I came into the partnership with about 300hrs and no instrument rating.. not sure that could be done today. I now have over 1000hrs and earned the instrument rating years ago.

The partnership has worked out great, and we recently upgraded to a 550 engine, new prop, and a whole new panel! I'm lucky enough to get to fly for both business and pleasure. The only other thing I really wish it had was ice protection.

Surprisingly, I don't have a shot with everything powered up,.. but here it is..

All new sheetmetal panel and floating panel. Powder coat, laser engraved placards. Internally lit instruments, WAAS 430, GMX-200, KX-155, PSE stereo intercom, GTX-330 mode S transponder with TIS, etc,. etc.

That sir is one beautiful panel!

Hi, Erik! Good to see you here.

Trivia tidbit. Erik was very helpful when I was in the initial stages of getting "Wings To Adventure" television started. The series about general aviation ran for two years on the Outdoor Channel.

In addition to having a beautiful plane, Erik knows his stuff about video production.

Good to hear from you!

Hi Erik,

Really nice S!

A question: how have you attached the bulldog clip for the appch plates to the yoke? I had that on my Beech 18, and miss it in my P35.

Best wishes,
Jay

Here's the nicest clip I've found for the Bo.


http://www.joepilot.com/itemdesc.asp?ic=B%2D1&eq=&Tp=

Hi All,

My name is Jason Crandall. I live in Atlanta. I fly a Cirrus out of PDK. I took my first lesson in May 2007 and completed all the way through instrument and multi by October.

I am in the market for a Bo. I flew a new G36 yesterday. I've been looking for a forum like this for a while. It's nice to have found one.

Jason, welcome to BeechTalk.

The G36 is a beautiful plane, and (I'm told), can be had at a seriously negotiated price. It does fly differently from the Cirrus, but it also handles a different mission.

One suggestion to consider is having the plane turbonormalized when you get it. It simply makes it a different airplane.

Pop over the Singles (one engine, not lonely hearts) section here and ask away. There's a lot of Bonanza/Baron experience on the board.