Saw a Starship Today!!

I thought they'd all got bought up by Beech and scrapped - how is this one still flying? Who owns it? :))

Alex.
 
There are six still flying.

As of autumn 2008 only six Starships continue to hold airworthiness registration with the FAA. Three Starships are based in Oklahoma, one in Washington, one in California, and one is still registered to Raytheon Aircraft Credit Corporation in Wichita, Kansas.
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wow it'd be great to get a trip in one, do they have to make their own parts? It was such a cool plane, I remember one parked up at DVT, I should've beg stolen or borrowed to get a look inside...

Tower, Starship 87P inbound for landing with Mike :P

Alex.
 
Was it a Mothership?
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Great airplane...... I just came across my old Starship manuals last week as I was reorganizing my office.

I believe that Rutan's group is maintaining those that are still flying. I believe there are 6 that are in private hands but only 2 or 3 that are actually flying - rest are used for parts. Last summer I saw NC-51 (out of 53) for sale in an Aero Trader.
 
Cessnaflyer said:
There are six still flying.
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There is also one (and perhaps 2) that are "based" in Owensboro, Kentucky. The owner does business in Mexico and registered one there (I think it's XA-JTE) so that customs would stop demanding money from him when he flew down there. Now the airport security guard camps out next to it because he thinks its a government official flying in. He had another N registered airframe but I haven't seen that one since last year.
 
ahw01 said:
I thought they'd all got bought up by Beech and scrapped - how is this one still flying? Who owns it? :))

Alex.
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There is one based here at KRVS in Tulsa. I've cleaned it a few times. I'll see if I have a picture.

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Amazingly enough, when we cleaned it the last time it was TRASHED!!!!! We found unopened soda cans with a born on date from like 2002, cranberry juice so old is looked like pink milk, and a bunch of expired snack crackers and stuff. Moldy coffee cups and all kinds of trash. It took us 15 man hours to clean it inside and out. There had been some urine left in the lav, and the entire plane smelled like Peggy Sue Rottencrotch!!!!!

We hooked up a power cart and so I could turn on the AC system, and when I did it just spread the smell of the old pee through the whole plane.

I found an AWESOME book in one of the seat pockets called The Starship Diaries. it was about a dot-commer who struck it rich and bought a starship when he had 400 hours total time. Flew it around the world during the course of 2 years and wrote a book about it. Good read if you can ever find it.

I also have some cockpit pictures if anyone is interested.
 
jwp_145 said:
I found an AWESOME book in one of the seat pockets called The Starship Diaries. it was about a dot-commer who struck it rich and bought a starship when he had 400 hours total time. Flew it around the world during the course of 2 years and wrote a book about it. Good read if you can ever find it.
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Too bad it is a fiction book. I read it and then I finally read a note somewhere in the book that said it was all fiction.
 
SoonerAv8r said:
Correction they have the Starship, Premier and a Cheyene
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Oh snap they own that LS? That is the sickest Cheyenne I've ever seen. Someone told me that Chuck Yeager set a Time to Climb record in that very aircraft.

I thought for some reason that the Darbys owned that LS, and I found it strange I'd never seen that PC12 that they supposedly owned.

Do I know you?
 
jwp_145 said:
Oh snap they own that LS? That is the sickest Cheyenne I've ever seen. Someone told me that Chuck Yeager set a Time to Climb record in that very aircraft.

I thought for some reason that the Darbys owned that LS, and I found it strange I'd never seen that PC12 that they supposedly owned.

Do I know you?
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I fly the PC-12 thats based at RVS...see avatar

And yes the time to climb record is correct, my friend Jim flies the Cheyenne.
 
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