Another Beech Bites the Dust: Fast Aviation Retrieves a 1960 Beechcraft Debonair

Hi guys, this is Rachel from Fast Aviation and we bought Hi guys, I'm Rachel from Fast Aviation and we bought a

1960

Deir Beachcraft today we are going to prepare it for disassembly. We're lucky the plane is here at a local airport and we usually don't have much time, it's like one day in and out you have to have a trailer break down, so today we're going to prep the wing bolts and remove the flaps and ailerons and disengage the flap actuator cables and things like that, so what we're doing is we're taking everything apart here and we're going to disengage the flap actuators and some of the landing gear, um, redirection rods, um, I always I like to search the plane to see.

What goodies are there fire Room oo I have gifts for Scott Delta BF bags the wings on beach boats are attached with wing bolts that are on the cockpit fittings so this is a wing bolt cover so come on to put penetrating oil on all of these. bathtub fixtures and what's inappropriate Daniel and basically just prepare the BT wing um. The wing bolts are ready to be removed and he releases them all, so we're going to check for fuel in the wings if we need to drain them. um it takes us a while to drain them, probably like four or five hours to drain, it's been empty for decades, the beachcraft Bonanza reigned supreme, it beat out all its competition, then Piper introduced the kangi at the same time cesna was working on creating the 210s.

These planes were $8 to $10,000 cheaper than the Bonanza and had about the same performance. The Model 33 Debon Aire was created to compete with Piper and Cessna solely in terms of price. In

1960

you could buy a new boner for just under $20,000.

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er with TOS power, only 233 decans were made and this is serial number 78. One of the things I thought was really interesting between the change in Bonanza and the deire is that they took a rador and literally turned it into a lift . So this is a mouse that is now an elevator. The name Deon Aire is derived from falcon hunting in medieval France.

Proud sporting falcon owners would call their falcons fancy, which meant they had good air. This is Jessica, she is one of the

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members of the

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team. Jessica says Hi, hi, there's no cend and that's funny. She brought you a gift. Oh sweet, they're original Delta barf bags. Yeah, what Scott's going to do is break the wing bolts and then we'll take the plane out. We're going to disconnect the recoil rods and then we're going to remove each wing. We will lift them with a jack and remove each wing on its own. It will be a lot of fun to reduce the cost of our beach boats.

It designed the Desire with fewer options, had a simpler instrument panel and not the bells and whistles of the M35 which was introduced at the same time. Sorry, the Continental IO 470 J was designed specifically for the Deon air which had 225 horsepower but had a lower compression ratio and could burn 80 octane, yes a wonderful day in paradise and the corrosion fairy , two more inches, no, no, don't go on, hey, could you hand me some, what are they called, diagonal cutters?, some diagonal cutters. Yes, where are they? They are at my school. It's okay if we break Scott, but let's not break the plane, sorry.