Description

The Beechcraft Model 18 (or "Twin Beech", as it is also known) is a 6- to 11-seat, twin-engined, low-wing, tailwheel light aircraft manufactured by the Beech Aircraft Corporation of Wichita, Kansas. Continuously produced from 1937 to November 1969 (over 32 years, a world record at the time), over 9,000 were built, making it one of the world's most widely used light aircraft. Sold worldwide as a civilian executive, utility, cargo aircraft, and passenger airliner on tailwheels, nosewheels, skis, or floats, it was also used as a military aircraft.

The picture below was taken on the day that I took my first plane ride. It was at Bay Bridge Airport sometime in the 1960s. I remember they were selling planes rides for a penny a pound. It probably cost my dad about 50 cents for my first plane ride. And the rest is history. I am the one in the blue shirt. The actual plane ride was in a Piper, the picture below appears to be in a Beech 18.