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Description
| Manufacturer: | Beechcraft | |
| Base model: | D-18 | |
| Designation: | Twin Beech | |
| Version: | D18S | |
| Nickname: | Twin Beech | |
| Basic role: | Commercial Transport | |
Specifications
| Not Yet Available |
Examples of this type may be found at
| Museum | City | State |
| Confederate Air Force - Arizona Wing | Mesa | Arizona |
| Pima Air & Space Museum | Tucson | Arizona |
Twin BeechD18S on display
Confederate Air Force - Arizona Wing | Pima Air & Space Museum |
Recent comments by our visitors
| Rahul jain , NY | plz send picture & details of d18s beechcraft sold to FALCON AIR IN INDIA 04/30/2008 @ 06:53 [ref: 20755] |
| Mark Clifton Concord, CA | I am puting together a shot video about a trip I took in a converted AT-11 to Abbotsford British Columbia Airshow about 1977. It consists of 8 mm film and stills of our adventure. Right now I am finding out if anyone will get in trouble if I mention a few anecdotes. When its finished I will put it on youtube.com and put a link here.
What a great plane. it took us on an adventure I still talk about 31 years later! 03/04/2007 @ 19:22 [ref: 15767] |
| Joe Moore Clearwater, FL | I flew a Twin beech D-18 that was fitted with Pratt & Whitney PT-6 Turbo Prop Engines. Didn't work well. Not pressurized and inefficient. I think it was called the Westwind. 12/18/2005 @ 16:55 [ref: 12017] |
| John Williams Dallas, TX | I was a plane captain on the Navy SNB (C-45) in the early 60's. I witnessed the only known "arrested" landing of a Twin Beech. NAS Atsugi, Japan had a very active Skydiving club which utilized the station airplane as a jump platform. The pilot took a load of jumpers up, dropped them, and somewhere on that trip lost the tailwheel. This left the tailwheel mount sticking down about 8 inches. NAS Atsugi had a 12,000 foot runway with arresting gear cables at either end for emergency stops. The jumpers were packing up and loading at the downwind end of the runway so when the pilot touched down he did a high speed taxi, keeping the tail up. Not knowing that he had lost his tail wheel, he lowered the tail just before crossing the downwind cable, with predictable results. When the remaining tailgear stub caught the cable, the aircraft came to a sudden stop, swerving to the right and the right vertical stabilizer came in contact with the ground. We put the tail of the aicraft up on a cart and towed it to the hangar. 02/18/2005 @ 12:29 [ref: 9470] |
| Mike Letalien Lubbock, TX | I have pictures of a couple of Beechcraft H18 Twin Beech aircraft that I'd like to classify correctly for my website - WarbirdGallery.com. I've heard that these Tricycle-geared aircraft had military applications but I can't find any information about the designation used for these types. Were they just a "C-45" or was there a seperate letter/number combo assigned to this sub-type?
Any help would be most appeciated. 08/04/2003 @ 15:08 [ref: 6613] |
| Clive Bollinger Las Vegas, NV | I had the pleasure of flying a Beechcraft D-8 Tri-Gear to
and from Las Vegas to Grand Canyon in the late 70's. I logged many hours of PIC flight time. A great ship. Pay load was about 1,500 Lbs as I remember (9 passengers). The round engines work fine too. I'll never forget the D-18. Clive Bollnger, ATP 11/18/2002 @ 12:03 [ref: 6097] |
| david rojko prescott, AZ | we had a d-18 for a jump ship at the Wildhorse West DZ, outside of Phoenix. one afternoon we were climbing out , on jump run. i was "rear float", that is, i was to go outside and hang on wating for the other jumpers to get lined up and ready to go. three of us would "float" (hang on outside). my position was "rear float", i took up a position aft of the door, my left leg in the door, my right out along the fuselage. the others were really taking a long time, and i noticed a handle up on the top of the plane. i grabbed it and swung myself up . now i was on top, straddling the plane (at about 11,000 ft). top of the world, ma !!! picture slim pickens riding that bomb down in "dr. strangelove" and you've got it. i was just having the time of my life, looking around, burning the experience into my mind when i realized the other jumpers were long gone. dove off to the port side and i think i caught up with them , not really sure now. this was about 1987. i "retired" from skydiving with an even 600 jumps, this WAS the best one ! 09/09/2002 @ 14:06 [ref: 5656] |
| Peter Barrows , KY | Three other twin beeches: CAF has one at Municipal Airport Madison Miss; A recently restored version at Combat Air Museum at Forbes Field, Topeka, Kan, and a restoration in progress to executive version at Tom Wofford's private airstrip south of Weiner Ark. on US 49. Stop by and he'll put you to work. 11/13/2001 @ 21:11 [ref: 3628] |
| Anthony Cash , FL | The Naval Air Station at JAX,FL. has a good photo of this plane. Search their site and see it for yourself. 07/10/2001 @ 18:29 [ref: 2630] |
| Scott Lindley , NC | A military version of the -18 (C-45) is still flying out of Asheboro, N.C. as part of the Peddycord Foundation for Aircraft Conservation. "The Redhead" (as her nose art depicts) began life in the 1940's as an AT-11 trainer and was sent back to Beechcraft in 1952 for a refit to "C" status. 50 years and 6 owners later she now flys at East Coast air shows with the MATS logo on her twin tails. 01/20/2001 @ 22:52 [ref: 1428] |
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