Beechcraft's finest creation

Timeless in flight
St. Thomas, ON
June 2018
This photo originally shared on Instagram

I remember the first time I saw it, a stainless steel vision from long ago, swooping over the hangars before circling back for a perfect landing on its tail-dragger landing gear, its nose pointed diagonally back to the sky where it had just been.

Any machine that can haul itself off the surface of the planet is special, but some aircraft are more special than others. The Beechcraft Model 18 first took flight in 1937, and Beech kept making them until 1970. The timeless ones are almost guaranteed that "special" label, and it's hard to argue this design doesn't deserve it.

The apron was littered with all sorts of crazily historic planes that windy late afternoon, all in town for the kind of airshow that I hope we get to enjoy again someday. But all I wanted to do was walk a wide circle around this flying piece of art and take it in.

Maybe soon I'll get to do this again.

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