Beecraft Queen Bee
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| name=Beecraft Queen Bee | image=Beecraft Queen Bee in flight.jpg | caption=The Queen Bee in flight }}{{Infobox aircraft type | type=Four-seat cabin monoplane | national origin=United States | manufacturer=Bee Aviation Associates | designer=William S. Chana, Ken S. Coward | first flight=1960 | introduced= | retired= | status= | primary user= | number built=1 | developed from= | variants with their own articles= }} |
The Beecraft Queen Bee was an American V-tailed four-seat cabin monoplane, designed and built by Bee Aviation Associates (Beecraft).
Development
The Queen Bee was an all-metal cantilever low-wing monoplane powered by a Lycoming O-320-A1A flat-four piston engine. It had a V-tail and an electrically retractable tricycle landing gear. The canopy shared a similar shape to the Ryan Navion. The wings were outfitted with fiberglass tip tanks. A 180 hp Lycoming O-360-A-1-A was planned as an optional engine.{{cite journal|journal=Sport Aviation|date=April 1960}}
Only a prototype was built and the aircraft did not enter production. The Queen Bee prototype was destroyed when the original San Diego Aerospace Museum burned down in 1978.
Specifications
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References
=Notes=
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=Bibliography=
{{Commons category|Beecraft Queen Bee}}
{{Refbegin}}
- {{cite book |title= The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985)|publisher= Orbis Publishing}}
- {{cite book|last=Taylor|first=John W. R.|title=Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1961–62|year=1961|publisher=Sampson Low, Marston & Company|location=London|author-link=John W. R. Taylor}}
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