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Please review the Exhibitor Service Manual (ESM) and either fill out the packet and return to ABS or register directly online here.

Owners of Aspen Primary Flight Displays must disable ADS-B interface before IFR flight or within 25 operating hours after February 7, 2019, whichever occurs first, under Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2019-01-02 issued today.

The ABS Air Safety Foundation works to ensure our resources, and your generous donations, are focused on products and services that improve safety and proficiency in the Beech community, and which ABS Members tell us enhance their Beechcraft experience. After nearly a year of studying Member use patterns and listening to feedback from the Member and instructor community, the ASF Board and staff have decided to discontinue ABS’ direct participation in in-flight training effective July 31, 2024 to dedicate our resources to the BPPP online and live seminar training products widely used by Members.

The ABS-BIC is a weekend gathering of experienced CFIs who provide or plan to provide type-specific transition training in Beechcraft Bonanzas, Debonairs, Barons and Travel Airs, in or out of ABS’ Beechcraft Pilot Proficiency Program (BPPP). Our meeting objectives are to:

BPPP Live will be held at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University 600 South Clyde Morris Boulevard Daytona Beach, Florida 32114 in the Willie Miller Gale Lemerand Auditorium.

These are the questions that have hounded us over our many years of flying. True, we are all pilots. We can navigate from point A to point B. We understand what a slip or a skid is. We know aerodynamically what makes a plane fly. We probably have absorbed all the fundamentals that our instructors imparted, but then we got our license! In most cases, the next time we saw a flight instructor was when we were trying to qualify for an advanced rating or when we needed special instruction to enable us to fly our variable pitch prop, retractable gear aircraft. Even at that, we only permitted ourselves the minimum time it took to get the job done.

In 1952 the Beechcraft Corp. issued Service Bulletin #24 which indicated the possibility of cracks developing in the welded steel wing truss assemblies of the Model 35. (Serial D-1 through D-1500). The FAA also issued a directive on this in 1952 (AD 52-22-1). This was followed by a second directive in 1956 (AD 56-25-1), another in 1961 (AD 61-10-1), another in 1962 (AD 62-2-1) and in 1963 the latest one (AD 63-25-1) was issued. A small amendment to AD 63-25-1 was issued in 1964 and another amendment was issued in 1967. So many directives have been issued on this subject that there is much confusion concerning the Model 35 wing spar. Therefore, the entire directive AD 63-25-1, will be published in the newsletter next month.

The first production model Bonanzas were delivered early in 1947. Since then the Beechcraft Corp. has invested thousands of dollars in research to make all models of the Bonanza safer and more efficient. This research has been published in the form of Service Letters and Service Bulletins. Dozens of these have been issued over the past twenty years. This vital data does not seem to reach the average Bonanza owner. We are showing several examples of this information on the last two pages of the newsletter. These Letters and Bulletins do not require mandatory compliance.

The Bonanza was designed by Walter Beech from the very first as an aircraft capable of instrument flight. In our opinion, it is one of the best instrument planes (in its class) ever produced.

Model: 35 (35R) No. 24 Issued: August 14, 1952