Each day, the team at Aircraft For Sale picks an airplane that catches our attention because it is unique, represents a good deal, or has other interesting qualities. You can read Aircraft For Sale: Today’s Top Pick at FLYINGMag.com daily.
Today’s Top Pick is a 1979 Beechcraft Baron 58.
Many people will tell you that the turboprop single has essentially taken over the market segment once ruled by light twins. The numbers seem to support this notion, as pilots looking to step up from high-performance piston singles often cringe at the idea of owning an aircraft with two piston engines and twice the expense and complication of a piston single. In many cases, well-heeled pilots looking for higher speeds and more substantial useful loads will buy turboprops, many of which are faster than light twins.
Then there are people like me, who enjoy the tactile engagement of flying a piston single and believe that light twins offer twice the engagement and twice the satisfaction. Is it a coincidence that many of us are old enough to have caught episodes of Sky King while it was still in syndication? Perhaps.
I think the aircraft for sale today is capable of making its pilot feel like a television hero of years past, with a fist full of throttles, an authoritative radio voice and, of course, disciplined speed control on approach.
This 1979 Beechcraft Baron 58 has 5,000 hours on the airframe and 1,095 hours since overhaul on its 285 hp Continental IO-520 engines and 3-blade Hartzell hot props. The aircraft is equipped with ComfortPlus air conditioning, LED taxi and landing lights, vortex generators, six-place shoulder harnesses, and a 166-gallon fuel system. Useful load is 1,673 pounds.
The panel features Garmin G500TXi PFD with synthetic vision, MFD with engine monitor, Garmin G 350C audio panel, dual GTN 650 GPS/Nav/Coms with ADS-B traffic and weather, GTX 345 transponder, GDL 69A with SiriusMX weather and music, Bendix RDR 160 radar system, and a Garmin GFC 600 autopilot with digital servos.
Pilots looking for the speed, redundancy and heavy-lifting utility of a piston twin for reliable cross-country travel should consider this 1979 Beechcraft Baron 58, which is available for $349,000 on AircraftForSale.
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