Beechcraft Starship#Aircraft on display

Development of the Starship began in 1979 when Beech decided to explore designs for a successor to its King Air line of turboprops that would fly faster and carry more passengers.{{cite news|url=http://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/beached-starship-5429731/|title=Beached Starship|work=Air & Space|last=Huber|first=Mark|date=September 2004|access-date=August 3, 2017}}

On August 25, 1982, Beech contracted with Scaled Composites to refine the design and build an 85% scale proof-of-concept (POC) aircraft.{{Cite journal |title= Beech buys Rutan technology |journal= Flight International |issue= July 6, 1985 |page= 15 |url= http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1985/1985%20-%202189.PDF |issn= 0015-3710 |access-date= February 5, 2010}} One of the significant changes made to the design by Scaled Composites was the addition of variable geometry to the canard.Popular Science, June 1984, pp. 74–77, 143,

The POC aircraft first flew in August 1983.{{cite news|url=http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1986/1986%20-%201000.PDF|title=Beech's enterprising Starship|work=Flight International p. 24|last=Warwick|first=Graham|date=May 3, 1986|access-date=August 3, 2017}} This aircraft had no pressurization system, no certified avionics, and a different airframe design and material specifications from the planned production Model 2000. Only one POC was built and it has since been scrapped.

Prototypes were produced even as development work was continuing—a system demanded by the use of composite materials, as the tooling required is very expensive and has to be built for production use from the outset. Beech built three airworthy full-scale prototypes. NC-1 was used for aerodynamic testing and had an ejection seat. This was the only Starship equipped with conventional electro-mechanical avionics.{{Cite journal |title= Starship I set for first flight |journal= Flight International |issue= February 15, 1986 |page= 14 |url= http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1986/1986%20-%200358.PDF |issn= 0015-3710 |access-date= February 7, 2010}} NC-2 was used for avionics and systems testing and NC-3 was used for flight management system and powerplant testing. NC-1 first flew on February 15, 1986.

The program was delayed several times, at first due to underestimating the developmental complexity and manufacturing learning curve of the production composite construction, and later due to the technical difficulties of correcting a pitch damping problem and developing the stall-warning system. By the end of development, the Starship had grown larger in cabin volume than the King Air 350 while having the same gross ramp weight of {{convert|15010|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}}. Starship development cost $300 million.{{cite news|url=http://www.starshipdiaries.com/|title=The Starship Diaries|work=starshipdiaries.com|last=Kachan|first=Dallas|access-date=August 3, 2017}} The first production Starship flew on April 25, 1989.[http://www.airliners.net/aircraft-data/stats.main?id=69 "Beech 2000 Starship 1"]. Airliners.net.{{cite news|url=http://www.bobscherer.com/Files/Starship%20History.pdf|title=Starship History|work=bobscherer.com|last=Bleck|first=Max E.|access-date=August 3, 2017}}

File:Beechcraft Starship fly-by.jpg

The Starship is noteworthy for its unconventional carbon fiber composite airframe, canard design, lack of centrally located vertical tail, and pusher engine/propeller configuration. The aircraft employs a variable-sweep canard surface in order to counteract the nose-down pitch from extending the flaps.{{Citation |last=Roskam |first=J |title=Airplane Design: Preliminary Configuration Design and Integration of the Propulsion System |page=82 |year=1989 |publisher=Design Analysis & Research |isbn=978-1-884885-43-3}}.

Carbon fiber composite was used to varying degrees on military aircraft, but at the time the Starship was certified, no civilian aircraft certified by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration had ever used it so extensively. Beech chose carbon fiber composite for its durability and high strength-to-weight ratio. According to Beech, the Starship weighs less than it would have if it were built from aluminum. Nonetheless, the empty weight of production aircraft exceeded the target by several thousand pounds.{{Cite journal |last= McClellan |first= J. Mac |title= Starship On A New Voyage |journal= Flying Magazine |issue= June 1993 |pages= 70–80 |url= http://www.starshipdiaries.com/files/Flying%20Review.pdf |issn= 0015-4806 |access-date= January 19, 2010 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081120122727/http://www.starshipdiaries.com/files/Flying%20Review.pdf |archive-date= November 20, 2008 |df= mdy-all }}{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RMXnUv3iIjoC&pg=PA82|title=Starship Logbook; Why the Beech Starship looks and flies the way it does|work=Flying|last=Garrison|first=Peter|author-link=Peter Garrison|date=June 1993|page=82}}{{Cite journal |last= Collins |first= Richard |title= Rising Star |journal= AOPA Pilot |issue= October 1990 |pages= 44–50 |url= http://www.starshipdiaries.com/files/AOPA%20Review.pdf |issn= 0001-2084 |access-date= January 23, 2010 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081120120458/http://www.starshipdiaries.com/files/AOPA%20Review.pdf |archive-date= November 20, 2008 |df= mdy-all }}

Beech studied several configurations before settling on a canard configuration in early 1980.{{Cite journal |last= Warwick |first= Graham |title= Beech's enterprising Starship |journal= Flight International |issue= May 3, 1986 |page= 18 |url= http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1986/1986%20-%201000.PDF |issn= 0015-3710 |access-date= February 10, 2010}} As configured, the Starship is difficult to stall; the forward surface stalls before the main lifting surface, which allows the nose to drop and more-normal flight to resume.{{Cite book|last1=Abzug|first1=Malcolm J.|last2= Larrabee|first2= E. Eugene |title= Airplane Stability and Control|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date= October 2005|pages=252–253|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=wpYDYLuOix4C|isbn=0-521-02128-6}}

A traditionally located vertical tail would have transmitted propeller noise into the airframe.{{Cite journal |last= Warwick |first= Graham |title= Beech's enterprising Starship |journal= Flight International |issue= May 3, 1986 |page= 22 |url= http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1986/1986%20-%201004.PDF |issn= 0015-3710 |access-date= February 10, 2010}} In its place, directional stability and control is provided by rudders mounted on the winglets. Because of this addition Beechcraft called the winglets "tipsails".{{cite web |url= http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/teachers/gaa.html |title= NASA Quest - General Aviation Aircraft |access-date= February 3, 2010 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090814082953/http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/teachers/gaa.html |archive-date= August 14, 2009 |df= mdy-all }}{{Cite book |last1= Siuru |first1= William |last2= Busick |first2= John |title= Future Flight: The Next Generation of Aircraft Technology |publisher= McGraw-Hill Companies|date= October 1993 |pages= 165–167 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=84uZ3ZHG6T8C&pg=PA165|isbn= 0-8306-4376-1}}

Mounting the engines so that the propellers are facing rearward, pushing rather than pulling the aircraft, is done for the purpose of a quieter cabin, since the propellers are further back from the passengers and because vortices from the propeller tips do not strike the fuselage sides. However, the propellers are operating in a turbulent airflow in the pusher configuration (due to airflow past the wings moving aft in vortex sheets) and high-velocity exhaust gases are discharged directly into the propellers, producing more noise where they are than if the propellers had been in a tractor configuration.{{Cn|date=January 2024}}

Flight instrumentation for the Starship included a 14-tube Proline 4 AMS-850 "glass cockpit" supplied by Rockwell Collins, the first application of an all-glass cockpit in a business aircraft.

File:Beechcraft Starship.jpg

Beech sold only eleven Starships in the three years following its certification. Beech attributed the slow sales to the economic slowdown in the late-1980s, the novelty of the Starship, and the tax on luxury items that was in effect in the United States at the time. However,

{{bquote|Reasons for the lack of demand probably included price, performance, and economic conditions. The list price in 1989 was $3.9 million, similar to the Cessna Citation V and Lear 31 jets, which were 89 and 124 knots faster than the Starship at maximum cruise, respectively. The Piper Cheyenne turboprop was faster and sold for $1 million less.{{cite web|title=Beech Starship history, performance and specifications|url=http://www.pilotfriend.com/aircraft%20performance/Beech/starship.htm|website=PilotFriend.com|access-date=3 August 2017}}}}

In an effort to stimulate demand, Beech began offering two-year leases on new Starships in 1991.{{Citation |title= Beech leases Starship in bid to boost sales |journal= Flight International |date= September 11–17, 1991 |page= 19 |url= http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1991/1991%20-%202401.html |issn= 0015-3710 |number=4284 |volume= 140|access-date= January 28, 2010 |publisher=flightglobal.com}} One of the Starships appeared in the opening scenes of the Murder, She Wrote TV series episode "Terminal Connection" in 1991.

The last Starship, NC-53, was produced in 1995. In 2003 Beechcraft said that supporting such a small fleet of airplanes was cost-prohibitive and began scrapping and incinerating the aircraft under its control. The aircraft were sent to the Evergreen Air Center located at the Pinal Airpark in Arizona for destruction.{{cn|date=June 2022}} Beech worked with owners of privately owned Starships to replace their airplanes with other Beech aircraft such as the Premier I jet.{{Cite journal |last= Phillips |first= Edward |title= Raytheon 'Toasts' Starships |journal= Aviation Week & Space Technology |issue= June 30, 2003 |url= http://www.starshipdiaries.com/files/Aviation%20Week%20063003.pdf |issn= 0005-2175 |access-date= January 17, 2010 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081120115852/http://www.starshipdiaries.com/files/Aviation%20Week%20063003.pdf |archive-date= November 20, 2008 |df= mdy-all }}{{Citation|last=Moll|first=Nigel|title=Bulk of Starship fleet headed to incinerator|journal=Aviation International News|issue=July 28, 2008|url=http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/aviation-international-news/2008-07-28/bulk-starship-fleet-headed-incinerator|issn=0887-9877|access-date=August 3, 2017|archive-date=May 11, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190511201226/http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/aviation-international-news/2008-07-28/bulk-starship-fleet-headed-incinerator|url-status=dead}}

In 2004, Raytheon, Beech's parent company, sold off its entire inventory of Starship parts to a Starship owner for a fraction of its retail value.

;Model 115

:Conceptual 85% scale prototype, one built by Scaled Composites. Scrapped by Beech at Mojave Airport in 1990.{{cite journal |title=Firm destroys Starship prototype despite protests |journal=The South Bend Tribune |date=2 March 1990 |page=21 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/517033385/?match=1&terms=John%20Roncz |access-date=2 August 2024}}

;Model 2000

:Initial production version. 20 produced including three pre-production airworthy prototypes.{{Cite journal |title= Beech to market six seat Starship |journal= Flight International |issue= November 6–12, 1991 |page= 9 |url= http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1991/1991%20-%202863.PDF |issn= 0015-3710 |access-date= January 25, 2010}}{{Cite journal |title= Starship 2000A details |journal= Flight International |issue= June 3–9, 1992 |page= 19 |url= http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1992/1992%20-%201383.PDF |issn= 0015-3710 |access-date= January 25, 2010}}

;Model 2000A

:Beech did not serialise the 2000A as a distinct model and it was not issued a new FAA type certificate.{{cite web |url= http://www.hawkerbeechcraft.com/service_support/pubs/docs/nontechnical/serializationList.pdf |title= Hawker Beechcraft Serialization 1945 thru 2010 |page= 61 |access-date= February 5, 2010 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090411082140/http://www.hawkerbeechcraft.com/service_support/pubs/docs/nontechnical/serializationList.pdf |archive-date= April 11, 2009 }}{{cite web |url= http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgMakeModel.nsf/0/5c7b90862ae7b46d86257385005e2b74/$FILE/a38ce.pdf |title= FAA Type Certificate Data Sheet No. A38CE |access-date= February 5, 2010 |archive-date= January 8, 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160108104431/http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgMakeModel.nsf/0/5c7b90862ae7b46d86257385005e2b74/$FILE/a38ce.pdf |url-status= dead }}

:The final 2000A configuration had tuning-fork-type noise dampers and improved insulation to reduce cabin noise and redesigned exhaust stacks for more efficient engine airflow. Stall strips placed on the front wing to enhance stall behavior were removed. Elimination of the stall strips reduced stall speed by up to {{convert|9|kn|mph km/h|0|abbr=out}}, which allows the 2000A to takeoff from shorter runways. The 2000 had standpipes in the fuel tanks to artificially limit fuel capacity so the aircraft would meet a target payload weight. The standpipes were removed in the 2000A, increasing fuel capacity by {{convert|31|USgal|L|0|abbr=on}}. Both the maximum ramp weight and takeoff weight were increased by {{convert|500|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}} and zero fuel weight was increased {{convert|400|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}}.

:Beech produced a kit to upgrade serial numbers NC-4 through NC-20 to 2000A specifications.

File:Beechcraft Starship Pima Air and Space Museum.jpg

Several Starships have been donated to museums since the decommissioning program began. The Kansas Aviation Museum received the first donated aircraft, NC-41, in August 2003{{cite web |url=http://kansasaviationmuseum.org/visit/aircraft/beech-starship/|title=Beech Starship|work=Kansas Aviation Museum|access-date=August 3, 2017|date=June 11, 2014}}{{cite web|url= http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=8283S|title= FAA Registry Query - N8283S|access-date= August 3, 2017|archive-date= February 29, 2012|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120229092955/http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=8283S|url-status= dead}} and the Beechcraft Heritage Museum in Tullahoma, TN, received the second donated aircraft, NC-49, in September 2003.{{cite web|url=http://www.beechcraftheritagemuseum.org/collection/|title=Beechcraft Heritage Museum |access-date=January 17, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091130002946/http://www.beechcraftheritagemuseum.org/collection/ |archive-date=November 30, 2009 }}{{Cite news |last= Dinell |first= David |title= Raytheon donates another Beech Starship |newspaper=Wichita Business Journal|location=Wichita, Kansas|date= September 18, 2003|url= http://www.bizjournals.com/wichita/stories/2003/09/15/daily37.html |access-date= January 17, 2010}} NC-42 was donated to the Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA, and is currently on loan to the Future of Flight at Paine Field in Everett, WA.{{cite web |url= http://www.museumofflight.org/aircraft/beech-starship-1-model-2000a |title= Beech Starship 1 Model 2000A - The Museum of Flight |access-date= January 17, 2010}} NC-27 was donated to Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon in late 2003 and is currently on static display.{{cite press release |title= Evergreen Aviation Museum Sees Over A Half a Million Visitors |publisher= Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum |date= February 4, 2004 |url= http://www.sprucegoose.org/news_events/press/500000visitors.html |access-date= January 17, 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100613164838/http://sprucegoose.org/news_events/press/500000visitors.html |archive-date= June 13, 2010 |url-status= dead |df= mdy-all }}{{cite web |url= http://www.airliners.net/photo/Beech-2000A-Starship/1147062|title=Beech 2000A Starship 1|work=Airliners.net|access-date= August 3, 2017}} NC-23 is on Airline Row at the Pima Air & Space Museum.{{cite web|url=http://www.pimaair.org/aircraft-by-name/item/beechcraft-2000a-starship|title=Beechcraft 2000A Starship|work=Pima Air & Space Museum|access-date=August 3, 2017|archive-date=August 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170804052634/http://www.pimaair.org/aircraft-by-name/item/beechcraft-2000a-starship|url-status=dead}} NC-6 is on display in Liberal, KS, at the Mid-America Air Museum. Aircraft NC-28 is on display at the Queensland Air Museum,{{cite news|url=http://qam.com.au/?portfolio=beechcraft-2000a-starship-n786bp-cn-nc-28|title=Beechcraft 2000A Starship N786BP C/N NC-28|work=Queensland Air Museum|access-date=August 3, 2017}} after it was used by the Queensland Institute for Aviation Engineering in Caloundra.{{cite web |url= http://www.qiae.com.au/news1.htm |title= Queensland Institute for Aviation Engineering |access-date= January 20, 2010 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20091002205036/http://www.qiae.com.au/news1.htm |archive-date= October 2, 2009 |df= mdy-all }}{{cite web |url= http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=N786BP |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120229093007/http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=N786BP |url-status= dead |archive-date= February 29, 2012 |title= FAA Registry Query - N786BP |access-date= January 20, 2010 }} Aircraft NC-14 is on display outside at the Southern Museum of Flight.

In 2003 Evergreen Air Center sold 8 Starships back to private owners for $50,000 each. Most are being used for parts; however, one of these aircraft has since been made airworthy again.{{Cite web |last= Howie |first= Bob |title= Owner stumbles into Starship support biz |publisher= AINonline|date= October 20, 2009 |url= http://www.ainonline.com/news/single-news-page/article/owner-stumbles-into-starship-support-biz/ |access-date= January 20, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707100319/http://www.ainonline.com/news/single-news-page/article/owner-stumbles-into-starship-support-biz-22388/ |archive-date=July 7, 2011}} Some former Starship parts have been used on the Epic turboprop kitplane.{{Cite journal |last= Wischmeyer |first= Ed |title= it's Epic! |journal= Kitplanes Magazine |issue= August 2005 |url= http://www.epicaircraft.com/news_images/Kitplanes.pdf |issn= 0891-1851 |access-date= January 17, 2010 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101028012809/http://epicaircraft.com/news_images/Kitplanes.pdf |archive-date= October 28, 2010 |df= mdy-all }}

{{As of|2010|01}}, nine Starships held an active registration with the FAA. Three Starships were registered in Oklahoma (NC-29, NC-35 & NC-45), one in Texas (NC-50), one in Colorado (NC-51), and four were registered to Beechcraft in Wichita, Kansas (NC-2, NC-8, NC-19 & NC-24).{{cite web |url= http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/Mms_Results.aspx?Mmstxt=1152000&conVal=0&PageNo=1 |title= FAA Registry Beech 2000 |access-date= August 3, 2017 |archive-date= February 29, 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120229092943/http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/Mms_Results.aspx?Mmstxt=1152000&conVal=0&PageNo=1 |url-status= dead }} NC-51 was used as a chase plane during the re-entry phase of Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne.{{cite web |url= http://www.air-and-space.com/SpaceShipOne.htm |title= Goleta Air & Space Museum |access-date= January 17, 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100115083650/http://air-and-space.com/SpaceShipOne.htm| archive-date= January 15, 2010 | url-status= live}} In October 2008 NC-29 was the first of the five remaining privately owned airworthy Starships to complete RVSM certification, returning the aircraft's service ceiling to the original FL410 limit.{{cite news|url=http://www.aeromechinc.com/news-aeromech-has-completed-the-first-non-group-rvsm-certification-for-a-beech-model-2000a-starship.html|title=AeroMech has Completed the first Non-Group RVSM certification for a Beech model 2000A Starship|work=AeroMech Incorporated|access-date=August 3, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170804114218/http://www.aeromechinc.com/news-aeromech-has-completed-the-first-non-group-rvsm-certification-for-a-beech-model-2000a-starship.html|archive-date=August 4, 2017|url-status=dead}}

Salt Lake Community College used a Starship in their Aviation Maintenance program until late 2012 when it was sold and scrapped for parts.{{cite web |url=http://www.slcc.edu/aviationmaintenance/#Unique|title=Aviation Maintenance|access-date= August 3, 2017| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100202004334/http://www.slcc.edu/aviationmaintenance/| archive-date= February 2, 2010 | url-status= live}}{{cite news|url=http://www.bobscherer.com/Pages/Starships%20NC-11%20to%20NC-20.htm#NC-19|title=NC-19|work=bobscherer.com|last=Scherer|first=Robert|date=May 8, 2017|access-date=August 3, 2017}}

{{As of|September 2020}}, only six Starships were airworthy. Two Beechcraft Starships (NC-33 and NC-50) were located in Addison, Texas. NC-33 lost its data plate when it was scrapped, and was subsequently registered in Mexico; however when brought back to the US, the FAA revoked its certificate. It is now registered in the experimental category as N903SC.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/2014-10-02/quarter-century-later-starships-still-fly|title = A Quarter Century Later, Starships Still Fly}} The other airworthy Starships were located in Oklahoma (NC-35 and NC-45), Colorado (NC-51), and Germany (NC-29, though registered with the FAA by a company in Delaware).

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==References==

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• {{Citation |last= Warwick |first= Graham |title= Beech's enterprising Starship |journal= Flight International |date= May 3, 1986 |pages= 18–24 |url= http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1986/1986%20-%201000.PDF |issn= 0015-3710 |publisher=flightglobal.com |number=4009 |volume=129}}

{{Commons category|Beechcraft Starship}}

• [http://starshipdiaries.com/ The Starship Diaries]
• [http://www.bobscherer.com/Pages/Starship.htm A Collection of Beechcraft Starship 2000A Material]
• {{YouTube|c6u6j1Fu4lI}} Detailed Beechcraft Starship (of aircraft N903SC) walkaround

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