STOL UC-1 TWIN BEE # 018

HB-LSK (s/n 018)
Bönigen, Switzerland
30 June 2007
Photo: © courtesy Matthias Sieber

AIRCRAFT DATA

Manufacturer: STOL Aircraft Corporation; Norwood Airport, Norwood, MA 02062, USA
Model: UC-1 Twin Bee
Type Certificate No: A6EA (25 June 1965)
UC-1 Serial Number: 018
RC-3 Serial Number: ?
Manufacturing Date: 1976-
Engines: Lycoming IO-360-B1D
180 HP @ 2700 RPM
Remarks:  
 
Reg. No. Date Remarks
N9512U 1976- Manufacturing Date.
1976- Test flight.
1976-  
1979-05-02 Mr. Henry Kendall; Sharon, ME, USA.
1993-04-29 Mr. David F. Kendall; Boston, ME. USA.
   
   
1995-05-11 Cancelled from US Register.
HB-LSK 1995-11- Mr. Jean-Jacques Lörtscher; Tannackerstrasse 57,  3073 Gümligen, Switzerland.
2000-10-28 During flight from Como SPB, Italy, back to homebase Reichenbach, Switzerland, the Twin Bee suffered fuel starvation and engines stopped.  On emergency landing the aircraft crashed into a tree after landing on a field near the town Wilderswil/Greichen BE, Switzerland, ca. 1 km SE of the military airport at Interlaken. Three of four occupants suffered unjuries.  The pilot was uninjured.
2000-10-30 The wreck was airlifted by a Super Puma helicopter to Interlaken Airport
2004- Reported to be under rebuild and restoration by Mr. Jean-Jacques Lörtscher.
2005- Restoration completed.
2007- Mr. Jean-Jacques Lörtscher; Seestrasse 69, CH-3604 Thun, Switzerland
   
     

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Updated: 2006-03-07
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