Current Beech 18 Operators

[FreightPup]

Hey folks, they are just about commercially dead now, but does anyone here ACTUALLY know if there are any outfits in the U.S. that are currently operating Twin Beeches, Part 135, anymore? Are Hankins and Phoenix Air Transport completely out of recip Beech 18s altogether now?

 

[Pattern-Master]

I still see some Beech 18's flying cargo around the Bahamas and south Florida. There is one abanded at Andros Island Bhamas I see in the weeds all the time. No one seems to know who it belongs to.

 

[bama*pilot]

I still think hankins has one recip 18 left.

 

[LivestockTony]

Air Supply Alaska in Kenai, Alaska operates one (with radials).
-TF

 

[CelticCitation]

A bunch on floats out of Campbell River, BC. There was also some wierd mod that put a 400 series Cessna nose and tail on the 18, looked weird, but apparantly they had some handling improvements, as well as the large baggage area in the nose.

 

[Rokit88]

Catalina Flying Boats out of Long Beach (KLGB) still has a couple I think. That and DC3s.

 

[Junkflyer]

Kamaka Air in HNL runs 2 and a DC-3.

 

[MauleSkinner]

There was one running freight out of the Minneapolis area within the last year or so...whether they've changed their minds on that, I don't know...haven't seen it recently.

 

[Seadogrun]

There's 3 or 4 operating out of FXE.

 

[goodgig]

I miss the twin bitch for some reason.

Flying Harleys.

 

[whaleroast]

I think Dynamic Aviation operates a few 1800's out of Southern California.

 

[CaravanMan]

There's one doing a nightly UPS run from Great Bend, KS GBD to ICT. Don't recall the company name though, think they're based at GUY?

 

[727gm]

I think Dynamic Aviation operates a few 1800's out of Southern California.

No such thing as an 1800....

They were BE-18T (Hamilton Westwind III's) and are all gone now.

One is flown by Brazoria County Mosquito Control District

Two went to a Be-18 operator in So. Florida(one of which was promptly wrecked in the Bahamas, and I think replaced with a third from Dynamic).

The last I beleive is for sale @KVBW.

The Dynamic So Cal operation is flown with all U-21's
(Army "Ute"/Civil. BE 65-A90-1's) now.

 

[hawkerjet]

I remember seeing a Beech twin with tricycle gear tucked away in the Millionair ramp at TEB a few years ago. I just recently saw a Beech 18 being used in 135 ops in Spokane.( Cargo)

 

[learflyer]

Tol air out of San Juan?

 

[RedGuy]

Don't know who was running it but I saw a turbine volpar Beech 18 pick up freight out of YIP the other day. That's the first turbine twin beech I've seen fly in about a decade.

 

[pilotyip]

We had a BE-18 T with tricycle gear come through YIP this week

 

[Tailwheelman]

I'm the only twin beech driver left at Phoenix Air Transport. Still operating one on nightly newspaper runs around the southwest.

Monarch air and Aztec Airways down in FL still run some. Nord Aviation in Santa Teresa, NM still has a couple (one used to be ours N9375Y).

Catalina Flying boats sold the last of theirs just recently but still runs the DC-3's and the caravan.

I delivered one to Opa Locka (N18R) from Long Beach but I can't remember the name of the outfit. I think it may have been island airways or something like that.

 

[Tailwheelman]

You may want to try posting at Beech18.net. I post there quite a bit and there are a lot of old 18 dogs on there. I also see some guys posting that still run freight in 18's. They may be able to help.

 

[vballindaytona]

some guy in el paso named steve runs his own 135 cargo business and has for some while. nice guy. has 2 of them, have seen him hiring in the past.