Aircraft model
BEECH A23-24
Everything here is true of every aircraft of the type, not of any one aircraft.
The Musketeer Super, with the 200 hp fuel-injected Lycoming in place of the 160 hp carburetted one. The extra power addresses the standard Musketeer's main weakness — it climbs properly and cruises at 130 knots, which is competitive rather than embarrassing — and the useful load rises above 1,000 lb.
It is the version of the Musketeer worth looking at, and it is still cheap because the family's reputation was set by the underpowered early aircraft. At exactly 200 hp no high-performance endorsement applies, which makes it an easy step up. The cabin and the two doors remain genuinely good. Beech parts pricing is the recurring annoyance on an aeroplane in this price bracket.
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- BEECH A23-24
What it is
| Seats | 4 |
|---|---|
| Landing gear | tricycle |
| Engines | 1 |
| Engine | Lycoming IO-360-A1B |
| Horsepower | 200 hp |
| Fuel | 100LL |
| Certification basis | CAR3 |
| Production start | 1966 |
| Production end | 1969 |
| Endorsements required | — |
Performance
| Cruise speed | 130 KTAS |
|---|---|
| Range | 700 nm |
| Service ceiling | 14,000 ft |
| Climb rate | 870 ft/min |
| Stall speed (Vso) | 54 KCAS |
| Takeoff over 50 ft | 1,800 ft |
| Landing over 50 ft | 1,400 ft |
Load and fuel
| Seats | 4 |
|---|---|
| Useful load | 1,030 lb |
| Full-fuel payload | 688 lb |
| Max takeoff weight | 2,550 lb |
| Empty weight | 1,520 lb |
| Usable fuel | 57 gal |
| Fuel burn at cruise | 11.2 gal/h |
Cost of ownership
| Price, low | $75,000 |
|---|---|
| Price, high | $130,000 |
| Prices as of | 2026 |
| Engine TBO | 2,000 h |
| Overhaul cost, low | $34,000 |
| Overhaul cost, high | $48,000 |
The fleet and its record
| Registered, all time | 272 |
|---|---|
| Active fleet | 121 |
| Median year built | 1967.0 |
| NTSB events, last 10 years | 7 |
| Fatal events, last 10 years | 1 |
| Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years | 57.851 |
| Personal-flying events per 1,000 active | 41.322 |
| Ownership transfers, last 24 months | 30 |
| Transfers per 100 active | 24.793 |
| Airworthiness directives | 2 |
| Directives, last 5 years | 0 |
| Rate confidence | ok |
- Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 121 active.
- Personal-flying events per 1,000 active: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 121 active.
- Transfers per 100 active: per 100 active aircraft · base 121 active.
Peer scores6
| Peer class | Fixed wing single-engine, piston, 1 engine, 3-4 seats |
|---|---|
| Accident record | 1.4 of 10 · scored on 21 years of events (fewer than 10 in the last 10)1 |
| Severity | 7.1 of 10 · scored on 21 years of events (fewer than 10 in the last 10)2 |
| Access | 9.7 of 103 |
| Support | 4.5 of 104 |
| Liquidity | 8.2 of 105 |
| Overall (sum of the categories shown) | 30.9 out of 506 |
- Accident record: class median 32.28 · 202 models in class.
- Severity: class median 12.5.
- Access: class median 775.
- Support: class median 147.5.
- Liquidity: class median 19.9.
- Each of the five categories places the model within its peer class, from 0 (the worst of the class) to 10 (the best): a position among comparable models, not a grade. The overall score is the sum of the categories shown that are scored, out of 10 for each (50 when all five are); it is given only when at least 4 of the five are scored, and it can be set against another model's only when both are in the same peer class and scored on the same categories.