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1965 BEECH 55 FOR SALE

Name: 1965 BEECH 55 FOR SALE
Brand: Beechcraft
Price: 154000 USD
Availability: InStock

1965 Beechcraft

Okeechobee, FL Listed 6 days ago

About this aircraft

$154,000 · AVAILABLE FOR SALE · 1965 Beech 55 and brand-new 2024 avionic upgrade. Great and safe cross country twin or cheap family IFR aircraft • 6314 TT • LH engine Continental O-470-L(16) – 741 SMOH • RH engine Continental O-470-L(16) – 1332 SMOH • Prop – 530 SPOH • Complete logbooks since day 1 • Garmin GNS 530W IFR GPS • Century 2000 Autopilot •Garmin G5 stby ADI • Garmin G3X • Avidyne EX-600 • Garmin GTX 330 ADS-B Out • Garmin GMA 340 Audio Panel • KX155 NAV/COM Clean and ready to fly. PM for logs, and additional photos. Asking price $154,000 Location Okeechobee FL -90FD airport

Specifications

Year: 1965
Total time (TTAF): 6,314 hrs
Engine time (SMOH): 741 hrs
Engine: Continental O-470-L

Avionics & panel

Full IFR touring setup

Glass panel, WAAS GPS, and autopilot — everything needed for instrument cross-country flying.

Glass panelADS-B OutAutopilotWAAS GPS

Garmin GNS 530W
Century 2000 Autopilot
Garmin G5
Garmin G3X
Avidyne EX-600
Garmin GTX 330 ADS-B Out
Garmin GMA 340
KX155 NAV/COM

Equipment list extracted from the seller's description. Verify with logbooks before purchase.

How this stacks up

2 in this listing's favor

Listed 6 days ago
Relatively recently listed
Engine has life left
759 hrs to TBO (51% of the 1,500-hr Continental O-470 interval remaining) — an overhaul is well down the road
Full IFR touring setup
Glass panel, WAAS GPS, and autopilot — everything needed for instrument cross-country flying.
4/5 key specs
Most key specs are provided; verify any missing details with the seller

This summary draws on signals shown in detail below — price comps, listing age, maintenance and engine status, and key specs. Read each section for full context. Not an appraisal.

Engine Life

Based on 741 hrs since overhaul (SMOH) and the published 1,500 hr TBO for the Continental O-470.

759 hrsto TBO

51% of TBO remaining

≈ 7.5 years to overhaul at its historical pace

759hrs left ÷ this aircraft's ~104 hrs/yr average. A rough projection — your own flying rate will change the timeline.

Engine reserve budget~$1,467/yr · ~$15/hr

Estimated overhaul cost ($22,000) spread over 1,500 hr TBO at 100 hrs/yr — a rule of thumb, not a quote.

Airframe time

Average over the aircraft's life — 6,314 hrs total time across ~61 years. A rule of thumb, not a guarantee.

≈104 hrs/yrTypical

Typical utilization

This airframe has averaged about 104 hrs/year over ~61 years — in the normal range for a personal aircraft: regularly exercised without being worked hard.

Cost to own

Rule-of-thumb estimates — insurance ≈ 1% of price, hangar $7,500/yr, annual inspection $2,500/yr, fuel + oil at your selected hrs/yr. Engine reserve from the panel above is folded into the split. Your actual costs will vary.

As a sole owner

$2,084/mo$25,007/yr

≈ $250 per flight hour at 100 hrs/yr — flying fewer hours raises this (fixed costs spread over fewer hours)

$154,000 to buy (the asking price)

At 100 hrs/yr, renting at $150/hr would be $10,007 cheaper annually — fly more to see ownership savings.

Ownership	Buy-in	Monthly	Annual
Full ownership (sole)	$154,000	$2,084/mo	$25,007/yr
1/2 share	$77,000	$1,542/mo	$18,504/yr
1/3 share	$51,333	$1,361/mo	$16,336/yr
1/4 share	$38,500	$1,271/mo	$15,252/yr

Buy-in is the asking price split evenly across partners — what you'd each pay to acquire the aircraft (the real figure is negotiated). Fixed costs (insurance, hangar, inspection, engine reserve) split equally by number of partners; fuel/oil is per-pilot since each partner flies their own hours.

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Price

$154,000

Co-ownership available

2 co-ownership shares listed for Beechcraft aircraft on ClubHanger.

From $110,000 buy-in — split the fixed costs with a partner instead of owning outright.

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Listing trust

2/4

Complete detailsYear, registration, make/model, and a full description.
Maintenance disclosedAirframe (TTAF) and engine (SMOH) times are listed.
Transparent priceA real asking price, not "contact for price".
Posted by a memberListed by a signed-up ClubHanger member, not a scraped aggregator.

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