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Beechcraft Starship 2000

1 model built 1989–1995 · 6 on the US register today

The Beechcraft Starship 2000, built 1989-1995: an all-composite pusher canard with twin PT6A-67A turboprops, tip-mounted fins and a variable-geometry foreplane, configured by Burt Rutan and certified in 1988 as the first all-composite pressurised aircraft with an FAA type certificate. Fifty-three were built.

The variants

MODELYEARSACTIVETAILFAX SCOREWHAT CHANGED
20001989–19956—The original
Family fleet, active
6
FAA registry
NTSB events / 1,000, 10 yrs
0
0 events over 6 active aircraft, pooled across the family

Data as of: FAA registry Sep 28 · NTSB Oct 2 · scores Sep 30

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