On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 17:11:56 GMT, Kevin Horton wrote:

: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
perating a Starship recently, although this may actually be the 85% scale
roof 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

About a month ago I saw one on the ramp at John Wayne (SNA).