The Beechcraft Model 18 (or " Twin Beech ", as it is also known) is a 6- to 11-seat, [1] twin-engined, low-wing, tailwheel light aircraft manufactured by the Beech Aircraft Corporation of Wichita, Kansas.

CAM’s Twin Beech is a US Navy SNB-5. Beech Aircraft Company in Wichita, Kansas, originally built the aircraft as an SNB-2 Navigator in 1943. As the name implies, its primary mission was to train aerial navigators, and it also served as a general purpose transport.

Accepted by the Navy on 20 February 1942 as a JRB-2 Expeditor, the Museum's aircraft (BuNo 09771) initially served as a utility plane with Marine Corps units at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS)...

During the 1950s Beechcraft rebuilt 900 of the Air Force's C-45s and these were re-designated C-45G and C-45H. The converted models remained in service until as late as 1963, and were used for administrative and light cargo duties. View our …

Beech SNB-5 Navigator (BuNo 44588, ex AF 52-10588) on display (c.1998) at the March Field Air Museum, Riverside, California (Photo by John Shupek) Overview 2 The Beechcraft Model 18, or "Twin Beech", as it was better known, is a 6-11 place, Twin-engine, low-wing, conventional-gear aircraft that was manufactured by the Beech Aircraft Corporation ...

The Beech SNB is a U.S. Navy/Marine variant of the civilian Model 18 Twin Beech. More than half of the 10,000 aircraft produced between 1937 and 1970 were delivered to the U.S. military. Military variants include the C-45, AT-7, AT-11, SNB, F-2, and JRB.

The basic JRB/SNB was a twin-engine aircraft with the large, radial engines mounted relatively far forward on the low wing. A “tail sitter,” the aircraft could be easily identified by the twin oval, vertical stabilizers with the horizontal tail surface faired into the top of the fuselage.

Flew the SNB's at Whiting for Instrument Rating b/4 heading to Ellyson Field for Helicopter Training in HT-8. Myself, another Student, and an Instructor took a final Instrument hop from Whiting to Boise, Idaho and back!

Continuously produced from 1937 to November 1969 (over 32 years, a world record at the time), over 9,000 were built, making it one of the world’s most widely used light aircraft. Sold worldwide as a civilian executive, utility, cargo aircraft, and passenger airliner on tailwheels, nosewheels, skis, or floats, it was also used as a military ...

My first flight in a SNB-5P came in 1953 at Photo School Pensacola, Fla. This was the first of 1,000 hours flying mostly in the photonavigator seat in the "Bouncing Bitch," as many pilots referred to it, at NAS Pensacola, NAS Denver, NAS Barbers Pt. and NAS North Island.