Picking up our Beech 18!

[@takman03]

Hey Jacob. It’s sad about the beautiful Lockheed but the Beech is a beautiful plane. I am glad that everyone came out ok. Good to see you posting again.

[@georgepelton5645]

It is great to see another Jpilot video. I am so glad to see your dad on his feet and flying again. The Beech 18 is a beautiful and historic airplane, it looks like a worthy replacement for the Lockheed.

[@kevincollins8014]

I absolutely remember that beautiful aircraft and remember your phone getting sucked out of the window. Some of my absolute favorite videos was the Bahamas trip and all the maintenance videos. I am so happy to see it back and I look forward to the upcoming videos of it !! Glad to see you're father healing up nicely . As always thanks for taking the time to put these videos together.

[@jpilot12]

Thanks for watching the videos!

[@flylooper]

What a beautiful airplane. The first airplane ride I ever had was in a Beechceft 18. Around the mid 1950's. The pilot was our next door neighbor and he flew the corporate Beech 18 mostly between San Francisco and Fort Bragg, CA . The plane's owner was the Union Lumber Company of Fort Bragg, CA, which was ultimately bought by Boise Cascade in the late 60's. In my old age I often wonder what became of that great Beech 18 our neighbor Walt Whiteman piloted..

[@rolacook222]

Yes, the wonderful 70 plus year old memories! Mine was living across the road from a small Oregon lumber baron’s grass strip. His shiny D18 was his baby, I can still hear the rhythm of the radials in the distance, rumbling the wonderful soothing sounds they are famous for. Cheers & best to you.👍🏻

[@markmcdaniel3975]

Glenn it’s great to see you muscling through your setbacks and pushing on in your pursuit of your nostalgic aviation interests. You’re a great example for the rest of us to aspire too.

[@jiyushugi1085]

Kamaka Air Cargo in Honolulu had the last Beech 18 (N933T) to fly the US mail. We'd depart HNL for Kona early on Saturday afternoons, loaf around in the shade under the wings at Kona until the mail truck showed up, then pack the entire fuselage completely full with mail and return to HNL in the orange light of a tropical sunset. Problem was, the mail was of a more or less uniform weight, so we couldn't put the heavy stuff up front like usual and were always a bit aft CG as a result. So much so that sometimes you didn't even have to pull the yoke back to rotate - she'd lift off all by herself. So many good memories.... That's a real beauty you guys got there!

[@dougscott8161]

Hi, Jacob, it's been a couple of years since I've seen any of your videos and man you have grown up. The last time I saw you, you were a little red headed kid and were riding around in a Lockheed. I'm glad you've stayed with the twin tailed birds, I think they look the best. God Bless and stay safe.

[@F84Thunderjet]

Great seeing you and your DAD. The Beech 18 is a work of art.

[@davehomewood4676]

That is a lovely Beech 18! It's great to see you and your Dad back in a new film Jacob!

[@Jeffrey-Flys]

Great to see a new post and an old plane! ❤

[@toddster2656]

Great video! Good camera work, and a brilliant choice of background music for that one scene. Glad to see your dad all mended and back in the pilot's seat. Keep up the good work, Jacob!

[@jpilot12]

Thank you very much!

[@WolfPilot]

What an awesome airplane. I love your music selection for this video and also the ambient audio for the buttery landing. Man those radial engines just sound so nice!!!! I am glad to see your dad back in the saddle. #beachlife #radialpower

[@jpilot12]

Thank you!

[@raybankes7668]

So nice to see you post this. Thank God everyone has another chance including this plane.

[@marchindy]

Glad to see your dad up and around. Good video.

[@jamesculver605]

Great to see the both of you back in the air again.

[@glennwatson]

Nice to see your dad up in the air flying.

[@r8drvr819]

I had the pleasure of flying a Twin Beech in the early 70's, and I too flew cargo to various grass and paved runways in North Carolina. Yours is a very fine and clean example verses my cargo carrier 18 that was rather rough. It may have not been pretty, but it flew so sweet and soft; I loved it!!!

[@carlmclelland7624]

What a beautiful bird! Thanks for restoring a few of the memories of flying a Super G-18, a half-century ago for Sierra West Airlines.

[@jpilot12]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@richardschindler8822]

Love the beech 18. I flew one way back in the 70’s down in Texas, flying freight at night. The one flew was in no way as nice as this one. Love it ! Thanks for showing.

[@terryboehler5752]

Got multi engine rating in a Beech 18 on my 17th birthday, July 24, 1968. It was a super H-18, but I didn't care, it was still billboard ready. Belonged to allied helicopter. They needed someone to take a 135ride, my Dad said "okay, my Son needs a multi engine rating". What a great time to be alive

[@Steve757-fl1hd]

I flew Beech 18s for SEMO while I was in college at SIU. It was N49K with 3-bladed props. SEMO had Be18s with Club props. Another big operator was SMB Stage out of Missouri. If I remember right - SEMO was in Mauldin, Mo. SMB = Sedalia, Marshfield and Boone. It was an old stagecoach company that went way, way back - like the 1800 hundreds.

[@skyking8721]

Love the name on the nose of this magnificent plane!!!

[@ejjefff]

Congratulations on getting an old friend back in your fold !

[@N98858]

Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane... ';-) My Dad ( a 30K ATP) had flight hours in N459BV and N244D back in the day!

[@slkgeothermal]

I have always loved the Beech 18, I have many skydives from them. Great to see you guys keeping the old girl in amazing shape.

[@Jim_Austin]

Congratulations on the new airplane, looks like a nice one. I look forward to seeing a lot of videos with it and maybe seeing it in person some day. I see you are getting big yourself. Thanks for the video!

[@ChileExpatFamily]

I have some good time in BE-19=8s flying out of Donaldson Air park in Greenville SC in the early 1990s. I used to fly with a guy named Chip.He owned his own 18. We had several Dc=3s / C47s as well and were hard at work in the Airfreight business. The old days. Jim

[@leeross7896]

My Dad had 4 of those, said they were great smuggler airplanes :) None of his had seats in the back. I remember them being very loud and the entire panel shook at take off power. He's out of jail now!

[@steveparsons6324]

Bug Smashers are pretty cool!

[@MarcoCabrera-f2v]

Bonito avión,se ve que le han dedicado tiempo en manto,felicidades...saludos

[@johnk5461]

Maintenance on a radial engine can’t be cheap!

[@DavidKozinski]

Gorgeous aircraft!

[@peterhodgkins6985]

What a gorgeous airplane!!

[@JSBIRD69]

I have hundreds of skydives from Beech 18's in the 70's & 80"s down at Roy E Ray Airport in Bayou LaBatre Alabama,

[@FLY2KO]

Love the Beech 18, my avatar is me outside a Beech 18 at 13,000'

[@ericsd55]

Great video sir!

[@brentdykgraaf184]

I know it is opinion.....second sexist aircraft ever made...first is a staggerwing. Beautiful aircraft.thank you for posting.

[@SquawkCode]

She's a beaut!!!

[@MrSuzuki1187]

I flew the Beech E18S with the 10,100 lb up gross weight for more than 3,000 hours. I flew scheduled passenger ops and on mail flights at night and was a company check airman/instructor on our planes. This was 1973-1979 in south central Missouri. I may have been one of the last pilots to fly the Beech 18 in scheduled passenger operarions when I flew it for a commuter airline in those days. Also flew the company DC-3A in scheduled passenger ops 1976-1978 and have 1,000 hours in that airplane. The one in the video is an old D model with a one piece windshield, which did not come from the factory until the G models, and no deicing boots. The Beech 18 simply demanded that its pilot bring superior airmanship skills to the cockpit... or pay the price!

[@stevenrichards8880]

Beech 18 bad ass birds they are to cool! Nice and keep her flying.

[@Andre.D550]

Nice! 😎

[@paratyshow]

👍✅ tks J man 👏

[@Ryanboy2020]

Dang!! Where you been Jacob?? Love that ole beach 18.

[@jpilot12]

@@Ryanboy2020 well I’ve been trying to get videos out just didn’t have the time to go fly. The day after the Lockheed accident we were gonna go to Texas but because of the accident we couldn’t. So I’ve just been waiting to go fly again!

[@Ryanboy2020]

@@jpilot12 Ah..ya bro...I understand. Well glad to see you active again and your dad up and walkin around. 🤙

[@rickunruh8132]

Is the Lockheed going to fly again? I hope so.

[@jpilot12]

@@rickunruh8132 it is gonna take work but it should.

[@Conn653]

❤❤❤❤

[@ronrandall9215]

Think I saw the cowling from the Airmaster on the floor of the hanger. Lol

[@jpilot12]

@@ronrandall9215 you did indeed! Lol

[@easttexan2933]

Most folks that watch aviation videos, especially those of vintage aircraft with round engines, do so to hear the engines, not the music. Just a suggestion.

[@jpilot12]

@@easttexan2933 I took out the music for the take off and landings. Thanks for the suggestion tho!

[@thecitizen49]

Never feel sorry for anyone who owns an airplane.

[@capt4550]

Would have been nice to see a take off and landing from the ground

[@jpilot12]

@@capt4550 I will try next time.

[@morthomer5804]

Schweet.

[@OFFICIAL-LP-Gaming]

Yooooo

[@johntremper9131]

A pilot should know how to spell Beech.

[@jpilot12]

@@johntremper9131 thanks for correcting me!

[@scotty657]

One of the best planes in use quite often to smuggle drugs into America

[@dalemullins4562]

keep Gryder out of this one please

[@RoyDees-t2k]

Fuck the music. I want to hear the engines hum. I stopped the video at 3 minutes.

[@jpilot12]

If you watched a little later there was engine noise when landing. Thanks for watching

[@RoyDees-t2k]

@@jpilot12 The video was already ruined.

[@jpilot12]

@@RoyDees-t2k go check out the video I have under “shorts” section there’s some clips of her flying no music

[@johnbrown-rm8kc]

there is nothing worse than trying to listen to the sound of the aircraft and there is stupid Music playing 👎

[@jpilot12]

Go check out the video I made under “shorts” I took some videos of her taking off and flying by