| Beecraft Wee Bee | |
|---|---|
| Role | Experimental sports Ultralight aircraft |
| National origin | United States |
| Manufacturer | Beecraft Associates |
| First flight | 1948 |
| Number built | 1 |
The Beecraft Wee Bee was an American ultralight monoplane designed and built by Beecraft Associates.[1] It was described as the world's smallest plane.[1]
The Wee Bee was designed by William Chand and Kenneth Coward. They described it as big enough to carry a man and small enough to be carried by a man.[1]
It was an all-metal cantilever mid-wing monoplane powered by a Kiekhaefer O-45-35 flat-twin piston engine.[1] It had a conventional tail and fixed tri-cycle landing gear.[1] The unusual feature was that the aircraft lacked any internal room for a pilot who had to fly it lying prone on top of the fuselage.[1][2]
Only a prototype registration NX90840 was built and the type did not enter production. The prototype was destroyed when the San Diego Aerospace Museum burned down in 1978.[2]
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