The 58 Baron has greater carrying ability, speed, and gross weight, but the climb rate remained the same. The Baron also uses the Bonanza’s dual cargo/entry doors on the right side.
Introduced in 1969, the 58 Baron increased the B55’s cabin length by two feet, creating a six-seat “conference”- style cabin arrangement, and added 50 horsepower. It was the fastest Beechcraft aircraft in production at that time, it was created to give engineers at Beech practice working with the 380 HP Lycoming engines before the introduction of the Model 60 Duke, which would be introduced the following year.īeechcraft still produce 58 Barons to this day, under the name G58.īeechcraft’s basic-model 58 Baron is the last piston twin still built and one of only four piston models still made by Beechcraft.
The next variant of the Baron was the 56TC, introduced in 1967, it was fitted with two 380 HP Lycoming TIO-540-E1B4 turbocharged piston engines. A pilot could count on 180 to 185 knots true airspeed on 24 gallons per hour at typical rich-of-peak power settings at 7,000 to 11,000 feet. The Baron added another 15 knots of speed onto the Travel Air at a penalty of about 5 gallons per hour. This first model was powered by two six-cylinder IO-470-L engines, with 260 HP each. The Baron was introduced in 1961 as the Beechcraft 55 Baron, which combined the fuselage of the Bonanza, the empennage of the Debonair, and the tail control surfaces of the T-34 Mentor. The Travel Air was only in production for ten years but made the Beechcraft Baron possible. Thus, the Beechcraft Travel Air was born.
Beechcraft soon realized a need for a twin to fill the gap between the gap between the Model 35 Bonanza and the Model 50 Bonanza. Beginning with the Beechcraft Bonanza introduced in 1947, a six-seat, low wing, single engine, retractable gear utility aircraft, which is still in production today (G36, its been in continuous production longer than any other airplane in history). The Beechcraft 58 Baron evolved from a long line of the aircraft that have been become pilot favorites over the decades. The information gathered for the introduction was from the AOPA, Global Air & Disciples of Flight websites and the Carenado documentation.
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