Olive Beech News Today

This year, the First Flight Society is recognizing two aviation luminaries through its Honorary Membership program.

The plane that time forgot – but not its many fans Two gents in business suits, sporting brief cases and fedora hats, stroll nonchalantly away from a V-Tail Beechcraft Bonanza. We are looking at an advert for the first Model 35 Bonanza dated May 1947. The advertising copy reads: “You save … Man power, man hours, money with a company-owned Beechcraft Bonanza.” Three quarters of a century later, a new Bonanza – the G36 75th anniversary edition, loaded with Garmin avionics – is rollin...