Beechcraft’s Staggerwing was a high-end personal transport in its day, sort of like a contemporary TBM, and remains mission ready today.

In truth, all Beech D17s were built as military-spec models after 1941. But you'd never know that looking at how it sits now.

Mark Holmquist’s 1939 Beechcraft D17S Staggerwing is being featured on the cover of the January and February edition of the Experimental Aircraft Association’s “Vintage Airplane” magazine.

Photos: Three of the four Staggerwing aircraft outside the Twenty24 Ltd hangar at Wanaka Airport, (left to right) Allan Arthur’s D17S, the ‘Antarctic Staggerwing’ and the Hawley’s first to ...

Museum officials said the exhibit doesn’t presently include any Beech aircraft, although volunteers are working on multi-year restoration of a Staggerwing.

Opera Kansas is presenting "Staggerwing," which tells the story of Blanche Noyes and Louise Thaden, who won the 1936 Bendix Trophy Air Race, and Olive Ann Beech, who headed up Beechcraft.

Recently a friend sent me a blurb from another aviation magazine about the restoration of a Beech Staggerwing — arguably the ultimate classic airplane — by the Kansas Aviation Museum. He knew ...

The event will feature classic "rag-and-wood" biplanes, including the foundation's own Staggerwing Beechcraft Model D17S and Waco UPF-7. Both planes have been restored to immaculate condition by ...

The Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing is the first aircraft in the new series called "Famous Flyers," a line that commemorates aviation history's most notable and iconic aircraft.