Search Results for: A36 Bonanza

For many years, Beechcraft singles were the epitome of high-end personal flying, and with the introduction in the mid-1960s of the six-seat A36 model, Beechcraft (today owned by Textron Aviation) created what might be the perfect piston-powered family transportation plane. The A36 Bonanza simply checks all the boxes. Like the Cherokee Six, it features a […]

Chebanse, Illinois/Injuries: 1 Fatal, 1 Serious, 1 Minor

Beech A36 Bonanza Elida, Ohio/2 Fatal The noninstrument-rated private pilot and passenger departed on the cross-county flight under visual flight rules (VFR) in visual meteorological conditions and proceeded on course at an altitude of about 9,000 ft mean sea level (msl). As the flight progressed, the weather conditions deteriorated, and about halfway through the flight, […]

Read the NTSB report on a Bonanza accident in Tonopah, Nevada

Beechcraft 1979 A36 Bonanza Engine make/model: Cont. IO-520 Horsepower: 285 TBO: 1700 Propeller: Const. spd. Landing Gear type: Tri./Retr. Gross weight (lbs.): 3600 Empty weight (lbs.): 2195 Useful load (lbs.): 1405 Fuel (gals.): 74 Wingspan: 33 ft. 6 in. Overall length: 27 ft. 6 in. Height: 8 ft. 5 in. Wing area (sq. ft.): 181 […]

1975 A36 Bonanza Used Price: $147,000 Engine make/model: Continental IO-520-BA Horsepower@rpm@altitude: 285@2700@SL Horsepower For Takeoff: 285 TBO hrs.: 1700 Fuel Type: 100/100LL Propeller type: McCauley CS Landing Gear type: Tri./Retr. Max ramp weight (lbs.): 3612 Gross weight (lbs.): 3600 Landing weight (lbs.): 3600 Empty weight, std. (lbs.): 2096 Useful load, std. (lbs.): 1504 Payload, full […]

Beechcraft A36 Bonanza N715LT Engine make/model: Continental IQ-550B Horsepower@altitude: 300@SL Horsepower for takeoff: 300 TBO hrs.: 2000 Fuel type: 100/100LL Propeller type/diameter: CS Landing gear type: Tri/Retr. Max ramp weight (lbs.): 3650 Gross weight (lbs.): 3650 Landing weight (lbs.): 3650 Empty weight, std. (lbs.): 2247 Useful load, std. (lbs.): 1403 Payload, full std. fuel (lbs.): […]

1968’€“ Present

The Bonanza is one of a few truly revolutionary light personal transportation planes, and it is, in our view, the first truly modern personal plane, period. When it was introduced in 1947, just two years after the war, it was in a class of one. It was the most practical, fast, affordable and easy-flying four-seater […]

The straight-tailed Bonanza is one of every aviator’s favorite airplanes. Bonanzas offer a certain smoothness of response, an almost indefinable coherence between pilot and airframe rather than simply tactile communication with stick and rudder. The first Beech model 33s premiered in 1960 with a standard, three-member tail, a 225 hp Continental under the cowl and […]