Beechcraft Starship: A Plane Too Good For Its Market

Esploure GA

The Beechcraft Starship was the most radical business aircraft of the 1980s, a composite canard pusher turboprop designed to replace the King Air. Unveiled at the 1983 NBAA convention, the Starship was developed by Beech Aircraft Corporation with aerodynamic input from Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites