NX22QU - 1970 BEECHCRAFT QU22B

1970

BEECHCRAFT

QU22B

NX22QU

EB-14

Used

1605.0

6

QU-22B USAF S/N 70-1535, highly modified Beech A36 used in Southeast Asia

1605 TT

310 SNEW TCM GTSIO-520-G 375 H.P. S/N 209562

Hartzell 3 blade propeller model HC-B3WF-4

This plane was one of 27 modified A36 Bonanzas for use in Southeast Asia under the Pave Eagle II program. Delivered to the Air Force. It carried a large generator above the engine to power the electronic equipment. It had a Barion B-55 wing and tip tanks for additional range, giving it over 6 hrs endurance. It was used in Operation Igloo White to monitor traffic along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. In 1970 a detachment of the 553 re Reconaissance Wing, later the 554 Reconnaissance Squadron known as the "Vampires" conducted operational flights using the QU-22B. They would orbit around the HCMT picking up signals from the ground sensors from the Igloo White acoustic and vibration sensing units and relay this information back to the information Surveillance Center at Nakhon Phanom Thai AFB. The program was cancelled in 1972. This plane was put back together in 1992.

King KMA-24H audio panel, King KT-76A xpdr, 2 -King KX-175B Nav/Coms, AT-3000 GPS, Argus 3000 Moving Map, Blind Encoding Altimeter.

Tip Tanks, Strobes, Dual Yoke

U.S. Airforce Military flat Gray, nose canopy flat Black.

1992

6 seats in Blue Tweed fabric.

1992

Aircraft was issued a Special Airworthiness Certificate (Exhibition) on 3-11-92. A Conditional Annual Inspection was complied with 10-8-2008. The Static and Xpdr checks were performed in Oct. 2008. The plane has all of its Military Records. Aircraft was weighed in 2008 empty wt. is 2895 lbs.