Research aircraft and systems

Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing ↗Pilot account

A staggering accomplishment

Ken Scott interviews Jim Parish and John Pike · 5 December 2008

Beechcraft Model 18 Twin Beech ↗Simulator documentation

Model 18 Twin Beech · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024

Carenado’s entry in the Local Legends series

Microsoft identifies Carenado as the developer of Local Legend V, released in June 2022. The announcement describes ten liveries, including Navy, Aviator’s Club and civilian schemes. Its historical descriptions of floats and skis concern the real aircraft family and do not establish those configurations in the add-on.

Original MSFS release context, 2022; current MSFS 2024 inclusion is sourced separately.

Beechcraft Model 18 Twin Beech ↗Simulator documentation

Model 18 Twin Beech · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2020

The original MSFS 2020 release

The June 2022 Local Legend V release offers the Twin Beech for PC and Xbox. Its ten-livery package includes a historic Navy scheme and civil variations.

2022-06-14 · release and package scope

Beechcraft Model 18 Twin Beech ↗Research-based aircraft background

Beechcraft Model 18 Twin Beech

The Twin Beech is a low-wing, twin-engine aircraft recognisable by its twin fins and, in its familiar configuration, tailwheel landing gear. Production began in the 1930s and continued for decades. Operators adapted it to a wide range of commercial and military jobs.

Different Model 18 derivatives can carry different undercarriages, cabin layouts and equipment. It carried passengers and freight on smaller-scale transport routes before turboprops became commonplace.

Aircraft / family

Beechcraft Model 18 Twin Beech ↗Pilot account

Time traveler

Thomas B. Haines · 5 April 2014

Beechcraft Model 18 Twin Beech ↗Pilot account

Model 18 Twin Beech: Father’s Day

Barry Schiff interviews Michael “Rocket” Blackstone · 1 June 2017

Beechcraft Model 18 Twin Beech ↗Pilot account

Flight Test: Beech 18 Expeditor

9 March 2017 web edition · flying with owner Tim Darrah; reviewer not named in the article

Beechcraft Premier IA

The Premier IA is a twin-jet business aircraft with retractable tricycle gear and a Collins-based flight deck. Hawker Beechcraft’s 2010 service announcement identifies Pro Line 21-equipped Premier IAs and a WAAS/LPV avionics upgrade. It captures a period when satellite-based approach capability was being added to an established light-business-jet cockpit.

Carenado B390 · Carenado MSFS rendition · 2010 manufacturer announcement · Premier IA as described in the 2021 AOPA flight review

Beechcraft Sierra ↗Simulator documentation

Sierra C24R · Flysimware · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024

Panels and avionics

Flysimware’s product page describes G5 and G3X panel options, with GNS 530, PMS50 GTN 750 and TDS GTN 750Xi integrations. The third-party navigators require their corresponding products. The tablet provides checklists, loading, fuel, weather and configuration pages.

Official Sierra product description; panel options are version dependent

Beechcraft Sierra ↗Simulator documentation

Sierra C24R · Flysimware · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024

Use the documentation for your panel

The downloaded v1.4 manual additionally indexes steam-gauge panels. It warns that some controls need the supplied hardware-binding documentation rather than default simulator bindings, and that TDS GTN750Xi is unavailable on Xbox. Its cover version differs from the older v1.3 download label on the website.

Manual v1.4, PDF pp. 1–4; product-page label checked 13 September 2026

Beechcraft Sierra ↗Research-based aircraft background

Beechcraft Sierra

The Sierra brought retractable landing gear and a constant-speed propeller to Beechcraft’s Musketeer line. Its broad cabin and low wing made it a practical personal aircraft and complex trainer. A24R, B24R and C24R identify successive versions, with differences in doors, equipment and detail refinements.

Flysimware represents the C24R. The accounts below describe particular real Sierras, including modified aircraft; their reported speeds and equipment are specific to those examples.

Beechcraft Sierra ↗Pilot account

Budget Buy: Cargo Sierra

Real C24R; modified 1981 example. AOPA Pilot, July 2005.