Bye, Bye, Bonanza

Textron Aviation, which owns Beechcraft, is killing off the Bonanza and the Baron.

The Bonanza's been around since the end of WW2. My late uncle once owned a Debonair, which was sort of a baby Bonanza, back in the sixties, when he had a consulting business that spanned much of the Eastern Seaboard. It was a neat airplane. The Air Force flew them as nighttime low-altitude surveillane drone.

I expect that, with eighty years of production, Bonanzas will be a common sight on airport ramps for decades to come.