Sunday, February 14, 2021

Beech 23 Sundowner/Musketeer

Information from wikipedia below....

 "The Beechcraft Musketeer is a family of single-engine, low-wing, light aircraft that was produced by Beechcraft. The line includes the Model 19 Musketeer Sport, the Model 23 Musketeer, Custom and Sundowner, the Model 23-24 Musketeer Super III the retractable gear Model 24-R Sierra and the military CT-134 Musketeer.


The Musketeer line was in production from model years 1963 to 1983, during which time a total of 4,366 were produced.[1] The type certificate for the Musketeer family of aircraft has been owned by Hawker Beechcraft since March 26, 2007."


Whenever i think of 50s and 60s aircraft and older that are almost forgotten the first one is beech sundowner/musketeer, its tough and sometimes unreliable for the most part... 


It looks just like a few of the older piper warrior/Cherokee etc. which makes a lot of people just think that its some sort of old and rare Cherokee Six or something, i love the shape but hate the flaws...but that's just everyone's opinion...its the one major flaw of the C23 unfortunately....some sit dormant, some fly...I don't know why after looking at all that data, its still almost a forgotten aircraft...

some aircraft you can tell are so, soo, soo well remembered but have barely a flaw yet the aforementioned sundowner on occasion gets left behind because no one wants to hear about them and thinks they are just pipers in disguise..!!!

I have never sat in one or ever been on one!!\

Lets make this not ever end up forgotten for good!!



A start, to this new blog

 Ok so here's a blog about one of my favorite conversation starter, almost/or almost forgotten aircraft that have been on their way to being forgotten..as soon as an aircraft/thing becomes talked about in the manner of being almost forgotten some people strive to make sure that particularly every part of the aircraft becomes remembered. 

This blog will consist of talking about every aircraft that is either obsolete, becoming obsolete, nearing being forgotten, and just on the verge of being forgotten..

I just started this blog 10 minutes ago (2021/2/14 @908am)…

if someone also has a blog like this and is doing the same thing i will take it down...unless we chat and have no problems!!

Thanks in advance