The Bede BD-5 Micro is a series of small, single-seat homebuilt aircraft created in the late 1960s by US aircraft designer Jim Bede and introduced to the market primarily in kit form by the now-defunct Bede Aircraft Corporation in the early 1970s.

May 8, 2019 · Single-seat light sport monoplane. One 71 kw (95 shp) at 6,000 rpm Solar T-62 series constant-speed, torque-variable, turboshaft. The Bede BD-5 series was the subject over the years of much development due to the difficulty …

May 20, 2020 · Surprisingly, pilots newly smitten with BD-5 fever can still pursue their fantasies. A company called BD-Micro Technologies, in Siletz, Oregon, has decades of BD-5 experience and a stockpile of original Bede kit parts. It makes all the missing pieces (with many design improvements) and has set up construction tooling and jigs.

The BD-5 was designed in 1973, and proved to be an extremely popular aircraft. The BD-5 is small and lightweight, and can be either single seat propeller or jet driven. The jet version is listed in the Guinness book of records as the world’s smallest jet.

The BD-5 is a high performance single-place, low-wing, pusher-configuration sport plane. Design features include all-metal construction, mechanical retractable landing gear among the industry finest, detachable wings,and wrist action side stick control as in modern day fighter aircraft.

Welcome to the BD-5 Web Site! The Official Home of The BD-5 Network. The purpose of this web site is to provide information about the Bede Aircraft BD-5, an experimental, homebuilt, single-seat high performance aircraft that first flew more than 30 years ago and which to this day continues to draw crowds wherever one lands.

These are PKZIP/WINZIP archives of flight models designed for use with Microsoft's Flight Simulator v4.0. The available models are for the BD-5, BD-5J and BD-10. Click on the link to download the file you want. Ken Johnson has created models for FS2004 and FS2002. I am not sure if they will work with FS2000. They are available by clicking here.

Aug 11, 2016 · Its original paint scheme was an overall orange-red with a white stripe, black and white checkerboard band between the tail and cockpit and a black “BD-5” near the nose. Its present paint scheme is the now-familiar Bede orange-red fuselage stripe and brown accent stripe on an otherwise all-white aircraft

The long-wing BD-5 55-hp micro will cruise at 200 mph, get 38 miles per gallon of gas, fly 1215 miles nonstop, is fully acrobatic (with short wings), yet performs almost like a sailplane with long wings.

The Bede BD-5 Micro is a series of small, single-seat homebuilt aircraft created in the late 1960s by US aircraft designer Jim Bede and introduced to the market primarily in kit form by the now-defunct Bede Aircraft Corporation in the early 1970s.