It spins are well behaved and predictable. Beech built only around 300 of them, and they show up infrequently on the used listings, but when they do, you can get them for somewhere in the neighborhood of $25,000, no bargain compared to the price of a Cessna 150, until you’ve had a chance to sit side by side with a friend in the Skipper. Beech Skipper Model 77 is a well constructed airplane with Beech quality systems. The biggest challenge with buying a Skipper might be in finding one. If you are in the market for a 150/152 or Tomahawk, give this Skipper a second look. True to the Beechcraft legacy, it is overbuilt and very solid with a stronger 115hp engine.
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The guess at the time is that Beech didn’t know how to design them any other way. The Skipper is a very comfortable two place plane to fly with a wide cockpit that makes every other two place plane feel like a sardine can. The real selling point for many is the cockpit, which is roomy, nicely appointed and strangely luxurious looking for a trainer. The Skipper is a great flying airplane, with terrific control harmony and easy landing manners. As you might know, in the mid-’70s for some reason T-tails were hot, and both Piper’s and Beech’s two-seater were graced, or whatever other description you might have for them, with T-tails. The plane is, as you can see, a low winger with a rounded canopy and, the clincher, a T-tail. Many pilots, even those who aren’t Skipper owners, believe that the Beechcraft product is a gem, and we agree. The Skipper wound up being a lookalike to Piper’s Tomahawk, a product developed by Piper for the exact same reasons as Beech created the Skipper. Make: Beechcraft Model: BE-77 Skipper Year: 1980 Seller: FLY-101 Location: New Bedford, MA, United States Condition: Pre-owned Seller type: Dealer. flying the Beech Skipper Dimensions Length 24 Height 611. The all-metal, Lycoming O-235-powered Skipper was Beechcraft’s mid-’70s attempt to create the perfect new trainer to grab market share from Cessna, which owned the training game at the time. We might just get in trouble for including this plane, not because it’s not a good one, but because the Skipper is such a carefully guarded secret. “Beech 77 Skipper” by Robert Frola – GFDL v.1.2/Wikimedia Commons
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