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Multi-Engine Piston

1974 BEECHCRAFT E55 BARON

Gillette, WY · USA
🕒 Listed 6 weeks ago
$285,500
fyiEstimate $205,000–$210,000 ⓘ How this estimate is built

Starts from the median asking price of 6 comparable Beechcraft E55 BARON listings ($223,950), then adjusts for:

  • Year +0 vs comparable listings +0.8%
  • Engine time +356 hr vs comps -5.0%
  • Modern GPS navigator (83% of comps) +2.3%
  • No Garmin G500 (50% of comps have one) -6.2%
  • No Autopilot (50% of comps have one) -1.5%
  • Market supply: 7 for sale of 215 FAA-registered +2.3%

Shown as a range. An estimate from asking-price comparables and FAA supply data — not an appraisal.

1974
4,698 hrs
N4305W ✈ Flight Tracking
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TE-967
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2
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Hugh Bennett Individual
Per the FAA aircraft registry (public record)
📍 Gillette, WY

Overview

Make / ModelBeechcraft E55 BARON
TypeMulti-Engine Piston
Airframe time4,698 hrs
Engine time668 SMOH
Avionics / GPSGarmin GNS 530, GNS 430
Avionics / AutopilotCentury IV
Garmin GPS FIKI / known ice ADS-B

Description

Detailed Description Step up to the power, speed, safety and mission flexibility of this Foxstar Baron. With 166 gallon tanks and 1710 lb useful load, you can reach either coast with one fuel stop during the daylight ours from the middle of the lower 48 states! Owner wants to trade for a turbo-normalized A36. This Baron is well equipped and ready to go for the pilot wanting the redundancy and speed this personal time machine provides. [email protected] Well maintained and flown, formerly owned and maintained by Kirby Chambliss - Red Bull racing pilot. Foxstar conversion 1992 which includes 4 blade Q-Tip props, pressure compensated fuel pumps, fuel totalizer, digital engine monitors, Gami balanced fuel injectors, LOP operations are smooth as glass. Winglets. VG's, New de-ice boots 2012, Ice plates installed 2018 Alcohol props and windshield, 166 ga usable fuel, recent new tires. Sheepskin pilot/co-pilot seats, Battery minder, spring thing nose baggage door, inflatable door seal. Deicing boots, alcohol props and alcohol windshield de-ice. Non-FIKI de-iced. Dual and single yoke controles, Single yoke installed currently. Cleveland wheels & brakes

Modifications

Foxstar conversion includes Continental IO-550 C3F engines, Hartzell 4 blade Q-Tip props winglets, fuel totalizer, engine monitor, Gami tuned fuel injectors, altitude compensated fuel pumps. Tornado Alley 6th cylinder cooling baffle mod. Reiff pre-heaters. Excellent compressions and LOP operations.

Avionics

Weather radar in color on Avidyne Flightmax EX 500 MFD XMDO76 satellite datalink receiver for XM weather and music - displays on EX500 MFD. Garmin 530W, Garmin 430, Garmin G5 HSI, Attitude indicator. King Radar - color dispaly on EX 500 MFDa PS 7000B audio panel Flitestream 210 bluetooth Garmin GTX-345 Ads-B Flitestream 210, Century IV AP Vertical card compass MidContinent electric standby attitude indicator Backup Vacuum attitude indicator Shadin Fuel flow Electronics International UBG-16 engine monitors Davtron MB-800 digital chronometer

Recommended avionics upgrades

Garmin GTN 750Xi

A GNS 530 is a drop-in upgrade to the GTN 750Xi — bigger touchscreen, WAAS/LPV, and modern nav/comm/MFD.

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Suggestions are based on the panel described in this listing; verify STC approval for this make/model before any installation.

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How this aircraft compares

Where this Beechcraft E55 BARON lands versus other Beechcraft E55 BARON listings on fyiAero.

Price

83rd pct
$165k$385kThis aircraft · $286k

$286k · 83rd percentile of 6 listings

Airframe time

60th pct
2,5717,363This aircraft · 4,698

4,698 hours total (TTAF) · 60th percentile of 5 listings

Engine time (Engine 1)

50th pct
541,870This aircraft · 668

668 hours since major overhaul · 50th percentile of 6 listings

Engine time (Engine 2)

99th pct
2331,830This aircraft · 1,830

1,830 hours since major overhaul · 99th percentile of 5 listings

Percentile = share of comparable listings at or below this value. Lower airframe/engine hours are generally fresher; price reflects the asking price only.

Operating costs & specifications — Beechcraft E55 Baron

Typical model-level figures for the Beechcraft E55 Baron (not this specific airframe).

$45,194annual budget · 82 hrs/yr
$293variable cost / hour
$1.5cost per nm
31.0gph fuel burn
$235,027avg pre-owned asking fyiEstimate  $205,000–$210,000

Performance & dimensions

Range934 nm
Cruise speed195 kts · 224 mph
Takeoff / landing1315.0 / 1237.0

About this plane

Twin engine piston aircraft with retractable landing gear. The E55 Baron seats up to 5 passengers plus 1 pilot.

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Last flight

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