On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 08:40:08 -0800, patrick mitchel wrote:

A friend who lives near oceanside, california, stated that he see a beech
starship flying over his house. There's nothing like the thing on the
market (with the exception of the piaggio avanti which has a differnt wing
sweep).So are there any still flying or has beech bought them all back and
are in the process of scrapping them. TIA Pat

Beech is definitely trying to buy them all and scrap the fleet, but it
isn't clear to me whether they have finished that process yet.

http://www.ainonline.com/issues/07_0...tarshipp1.html

One article seems to indicate that Scaled Composites (i.e. Burt Rutan) was
operating a Starship recently, although this may actually be the 85% scale
proof of concept Starship that Scaled Composites built for Beech prior to
the Starship program launch.

http://www.califcity.com/SpaceShipOne.html

There certainly are a big batch of Starships out of service now:

http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/000112.html
http://4dw.net/marcborom/LongEZ/StarshipPics.htm

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