Bede BD-3 explained

The Bede BD-3 is a prototype six passenger homebuilt aircraft.

Design and development

The BD-3 is a six place, low wing pusher configuration aircraft with tricycle landing gear. The aircraft is powered by two engines driving a single shrouded pusher propeller connected with V belts and overriding clutches. The aircraft uses STOL Boundary layer control devices. The fuselage was built using aluminum honeycomb. Bede intended to scale up a turboprop variant for 15 and 24 passengers. The BD-3 prototype was sold to the EAA AirVenture Museum,[1] [2] although by 2013 it did not appear on the museum's list of aircraft owned.[3]

Variants

Bede XBD-2
  • Flying prototype - Twin Continental O-300
    BD-3
  • Production model

    Notes and References

    1. Air Progress. November 1978. 31.
    2. Flying Magazine. Nov 1962. 105.
    3. Web site: Aircraft Collection . AirVenture Museum . 2013-12-23.