Thomas Hines submitted the following photo and note: “One of the few TwinBees still flying, UC-1. I believe there are about six still airworthy. My wife and I picked it up for the owner and flew it from North Carolina to upstate New York. There were no experienced instructors available, so I checked myself out and found it to be a very different airplane, locking tailwheel, STOL and amphibious. I’m now CFI in it.”
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Have fun, Tommy. Hope to see you at the Last Frontier this summer if this Coronavirus doesn’t interfere.
Hi Manny, hope to see you up north also. I will have both the 185 and the new Husky in the village this year. We can take it out fish if you want.
As a little boy back in the early 60’s, I couldn’t have been more than 6 or seven years old, I remember seeing a TwinBee parked in the grass, as most airplanes were back then, and asking my dad about it. He told me that that airplane could land on the water and it had two engines. My dad then went on to say that it was a very rare airplane. I never forgot that talk. The TwinBee was based at PWK (Palwaukee airport). I never saw another one until seeing this photo. Thanks for the photo. I was beginning to think it was just a dream I had about an airplane.