Beecraft Queen Bee

The Beecraft Queen Bee was an American V-tailed four-seat cabin monoplane, designed and built by Bee Aviation Associates.

Development

The Queen Bee was an all-metal cantilever low-wing monoplane powered by a Lycoming O-320-A1A flat-four piston engine. It had a V-tail and an electrically retractable tricycle [landing gear]. The canopy shared a similar shape to the Ryan Navion. The wings were outfitted with fiberglass tip tanks. A 180 hp Lycoming O-360-A-1-A was planned as an optional engine.
Only a prototype was built and the aircraft did not enter production. The Queen Bee prototype was destroyed when the original San Diego [Air & Space Museum|San Diego Aerospace Museum] burned down in 1978.