RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT COMPANY 58

The Baron 58 as built under the Raytheon name, with the 300 hp Continental IO-550-C and the conventional panel layout that both arrived in 1984. It is the stretched Baron with club seating and double doors on the right rear, cruising at 200 knots with 1,480 nautical miles of range. Within the Raytheon years the one change a buyer should know is the panel: through 2004 the aircraft have conventional instruments, and from 2005 the same airframe was built with the Garmin G1000 and sold as the G58, still registered as a 58 — so a 2003 and a 2006 Baron are the same aeroplane with entirely different cockpits.

This has been the default owner-flown piston twin for business travel for fifty years, and a Raytheon-era aircraft is new enough to have usable avionics and low-ish airframe hours while costing a fraction of a current Textron-built one. The costs are unchanged: about 32 gallons an hour, two engine overhauls, two propellers, and a light-twin annual with deice equipment. Insurers require a multi-engine rating, time in type and usually annual recurrent training for an owner-pilot.

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What it is

Seats	6
Landing gear	tricycle
Engines	2
Engine	Continental IO-550-C
Horsepower	300 hp
Fuel	100LL
Certification basis	CAR3
Production start	1984
Production end	2006
Endorsements required	complex;high-performance;multi-engine

Performance

Cruise speed	200 KTAS
Range	1,480 nm
Service ceiling	20,688 ft
Climb rate	1,750 ft/min
Stall speed (Vso)	74 KCAS
Takeoff over 50 ft	2,345 ft
Landing over 50 ft	2,498 ft

Load and fuel

Seats	6
Useful load	1,650 lb
Full-fuel payload	654 lb
Max takeoff weight	5,500 lb
Empty weight	3,850 lb
Usable fuel	166 gal
Fuel burn at cruise	33.6 gal/h

Cost of ownership

Price, low	$300,000
Price, high	$700,000
Prices as of	2026
Engine TBO	1,900 h
Overhaul cost, low	$55,000
Overhaul cost, high	$78,000

The fleet and its record

Registered, all time	330
Active fleet	188
Median year built	1999.0
NTSB events, last 10 years	6
Fatal events, last 10 years	3
Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years	31.91¹
Personal-flying events per 1,000 active	10.64²
Ownership transfers, last 24 months	37
Transfers per 100 active	19.68³
Airworthiness directives	16
Directives, last 5 years	0
Rate confidence	ok

Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 188 active.
Personal-flying events per 1,000 active: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 188 active.
Transfers per 100 active: per 100 active aircraft · base 188 active.

Peer scores⁶

Peer class	Fixed wing multi-engine, piston, 2 engines, 5-6 seats
Accident record	6.4 of 10¹
Severity	3.6 of 10²
Access	6 of 10³
Support	10 of 10⁴
Liquidity	6.2 of 10⁵
Overall (sum of the categories shown)	32.2 out of 50⁶

These record scores treat RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT COMPANY 58 as one design with the same aircraft registered under other names: it includes 726 aircraft registered under BEECH. Prices are not combined.

Accident record: class median 28.74 · 56 models in class.
Severity: class median 33.33.
Access: class median 2,812.25.
Support: class median 57.
Liquidity: class median 21.91.
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.