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#17 1978 Baron B55 For Sale - Quick Test Flight to Oxnard and Back
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- čas přidán 14. 08. 2024
- In this video we are flying our 1978 Baron B55 that we currently have for sale. We wanted to take the plane to Camarillo and drop something off but the runway closed just as we were approaching so we decided to go to Oxnard and still completed the mission. The Baron B55 is a great x-country plane with lots of performance and plenty of room. If you're in the market, please feel free to contact me.
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0:00 Intro
0:51 Engine Start
1:17 Take-Off LGB
4:05 Baron B55
6:50 Approaching Oxnard
8:15 Landing Oxnard
9:35 Take-Off Oxnard
11:45 Performance
13:45 Foreflight
14:38 Approaching LGB
15:45 Landing LGB
16:15 Final Thoughts
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I am an airline captain and haven’t been in a small plane in probably 23+ years but for the first time in my life I’m thinking about buying a plane. I have watched this video several times and have drooled over the listing for weeks. Would it be about 35 grand to overhaul the other engine? Can you usually include that in the aircraft loan? I figure a g4 engine monitor and gps and one engine overhaul and that’s pretty much all you would need?
Agree - your estimates pretty close. Really like this airplane as well - we sold and set to close soon. We do have another 55 we’re working on getting on the market.
@@FlyingwithRich congrats on the sale. I hope something this nice in this price range turns up when I really start looking. I would like to come by there if I ever have a Long Beach overnight.
Just let us know when!
There will ALWAYS be unexpected MX expenses with the first annual of a new-to-you plane. Not good if you’re already financed to the hilt…
Only a legit crazy person would by a Barron these days.
That was my father’s exact plane he owned it in ‘94. Very nostalgic.
@El Sucio Federali No but he had his license since he was 16, hes 64 now. Lots of hours, we flew it between the central valley and bay area.
@@TacticalPortugee Same story. My dad was a Central Valley boy, pilot at 16. We flew all over the West in his Baron. It was my favorite of all the planes he owned. Good times!
Can you find out why he sold it? This example looks like it’s been amazingly well cared for, most older planes with original cockpits are worn down and beat up, they look all raggedy with the steam gauge dashboards. This one at least from this video looks new like a museum piece.
@@wayneco He needed more cargo capacity so we got a 421 after
I flew this exact plane yesterday.
I used to own that plane for a couple years back in '94-'95 I had it for 2 months and the right engine blew up flying to Catalina right about the coastline then landed Bakersfield, put a new engine in it got a lot of memories in that plane with my son and family..I loved that plane, still love it I would buy it back again 'cept I'm too damn old and too freaking broke...It looks exactly the way it was back then, looks like it's been well cared for.
That's really cool! Always love to hear from previous owners. She still flies great to this day and looks very good.
Brings me back to the late 70s when the only digital displays were DME and radios! Sweet old Baron.
It is a sweet old Baron - a real pleasure to fly. Thanks for watching!
Been a fan of these ever since watching "Airport '75" as a kid... LOL.
Me too, also one of my aviation movie classics . Should be remade as well as the original one from 1969. Did you know that Airport ‘75 Baron( N232Z..movie number)was actually involved in a real midair in CA a few years later near SCK, with a C180. Sadly, sometimes, you can’t escape irony.
@@B1970T Interesting - that's definitely a sad coincidence.
I love a Baron and I love that instrument panel...brings back good memories.
Gosh... there is just something hypnotically wonderful with the humming of a twin engine craft. ❤️❤️
Couldn't agree more!
Nothin' better'n a B-Baron!! Plus, a flight in and out of OXR, my first FAA controller assignment, '72 - 75. (Then Ontario TRACON, McCarran tower/TRACON and finally Sacramento TRACON). Got my CFI & II at OXR, first part 135 certification with Sierra West Airlines, and flew my first jet out of OXR. Thanks for the memories! Just wish I could afford a Baron!
Very nice story and thank you for watching! :)
I've got about 400 hours in B58 and B55 Barons in Australia in the '90s. That panel would have been super well fitted back then - just missing a radar.
Brings back memories.
This plane has a radar.
Little hot rod Baron B55. One of my favorites back in my flight line tech days. 👍🏻😎
Hi Rich, I’m a retired airline captain from the Netherlands. Its nice to see how smooth you treat the engines. I love the old instruments. Greets
Thank you. Thanks for watching!
Nice rich it's always great to see your videos and see you flying, have a great flight 👍😎 John from San Diego 😁.
Thanks!
What a great find! This 1978 Baron is in great shape and offers many advantages to the buyer. If the panel and avionics were upgraded, it would be the complete package for any pilot! I might also add that you handled the Baron quite well Rich! Best of Luck!
Agree this is a great 55 Baron - would be a lot of fun to upgrade the panel! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for all the ride-alongs you've taken me on. Always a pleasure. You're good at what you do. Been a subscriber for some time now and as usual, always a learning experience.
Thank you - glad you enjoy the videos.
The Baron 58 in Aerofly FS 2021 iPAD SIM is my favorite plane to fly. 👍👍
The Beautiful Sunset says it all Chris
A great looking older bird that still does the job nicely. Great video. Thanks for the flight.
Such a pleasure to fly too!
Always enjoy your videos Rich...your comments are often funny and you had some today...!!!
Those engines need some love but after take off smoothed out, I like the plane, nice job cleaning her up!
another excellent video Rich, when u departed Oxnard, I was kind of dozing off but the sound of the engines on takeoff sounded exactly like the 1973 337G that I used to own lol. Love that B55.
Glad it brought back some memories! Thanks for the comment!
I like how you smoothly advanced the throttles on takeoff and how you professionally kept your nose on the centerline. Nice job :).
Thank you!
Nice take off. I can't wait to start my training
When are engines susceptible to failures? Power changes or wide varies of internal temperature changes. Being smooth with power changes with reciprocated engines will definitely lower the risk factor. I see guys slam the the throttle levers all the way forward with no transition time....your asking your power plant to eventually fail
Centerline is reserved for professionals!
Really like this video so I can fly the Barron in X-Plane 12 realistically. Thanks
Excellent job. Loved the views of California too.
Thank you.
I had a '74 B55. Very similar panel. Really nice airplane.
Really liked that airplane!
Thanks for the video, I like the C310’s, but the Baron is a great airplane.
I prefer the Baron as well. Thanks for watching!
The B-55 is the nicest flying twin piston I’ve ever flown. In my opinion the pure handling during slow and high speeds and everything in between, nothing will beat the 55. In need of a major investment at the front office though.
Thanks for watching!
Love those old school setups.
Me too!
stumbled across this channel, other than Steveo with the TBM, This is definitely the guy i would want to fly with. Good stuff.
Thanks - come out and fly with me!
I flew 55 for MEIR and 58 for the company delivering newspapers 6 days per week…..1968-73.
I seem to recall Mitchell ap was standard but back in the day we never had one that worked or bothered with.
Pretty big grin on that second take off… Lol
Barons always bring the smiles!
Looking very nice.
Please fly safe and be safe with this Global Virus Problem.
👍
@@FlyingwithRich You are welcome. Fly safe always.
Fun flight. Didn't seem there was much traffic up there. Looks like you managed to just skirt under some nasty weather.
The weather looked worse than it was but some really pretty clouds. It was a great flight. Thanks for watching!
I love the sound from the engines
Me too!
Best looking piston twin! Short, powerful, beautifully proportioned. Id love to have one with upgraded IO550's or twin turbo 540's! haha hot rod!
Me too!
Yay!
Thanks Rich
Thank you.
With the sunset in the distance ahead. 🇺🇸🥰🥰🥰
Thx for this channel and all you bring to it! Being raised on every episode of Sky King as a little kid, I wonder what you have to say in general about the Cessna 310 series?
I love the 310s - especially the way the early ones look. One of the planes I would like to restore to original condition one day. Thanks for watching!
@@FlyingwithRich Me too! Straight tails and canted nose gear. I do hear occasional bummer stories about collapsed nose gear…
Nice example someone can make their own.
Beautiful landing in Oxnard
I really liked my Northstar M1. It used to keep right up with the Garmin 196 I also used.
It was great while it lasted!
Rich, if you ever get a C,D, or E55 would you do a video on the performance differences between them and a B55? Thanks, and this is a great video. We appreciate you and OCR making these!
Will do!
Smooth as butter!
A bit of consideration if it's not too much to ask for us headphone users at the end of your videos the high bass music it's obvious lot higher than the rest of the video, very uncomfortable, felt like wanting to remove earphones right away. Rest of the video good job and high quality cameras I see you have there.
Thanks a lot for the info! Our editor is trying to cap low frequencies as much as possible but we weren't aware of the song causing uncomfortably low frequencies! Really appreciate it! Thanks!
Had a 55 in my charter company also 58, 55 was faster and more cost effective! A super sweet bird!
Yes it is! Thanks for watching!
Gosh this planes cockpit is like new and immaculate.
It’s in great condition - video probably makes it look a little better than reality. Thanks for watching!
I flew a P Barron- pressurized cabin. My business travel plane. Then purchased a Beech Diamond, much faster and more comfortable.
Love the baron!!
Couple a hundred "K" for a new panel, paint, and interior and you wouldn't lose a dime.
I think you could spend that much but he more I fly that airplane, the more I think I would leave it alone. Maybe a few upgrades - thanks for watching!
Learned to fly at LGB and been through the LAX Special Flight Rules area many many times. And hey, some of us can’t afford a full on glass panel and still fly with steam gages. Anyone can follow the magenta line on a screen🤗. The IO-470 powered Barons are ok but give me a D model with IO520s any day. Wow look at that departure, could have filed IFR and brushed up on your old school IFR skills. Don’t knock that LORAN.......Back in the day I’ve had the GPS loose it’s signal but the loran just kept on trucking. Last thing.....what do you want for the Baron?
Haha I agree! The Baron is listed for $143,900 on Controller!
@@FlyingwithRich thanks...I hope your not associated with Tom’s there at Long. beach. They lost me years ago when they didn’t work in my airplane when I was out of town and I came back to find nothing done. When I asked they said “they didn’t want to work in it”. (Fuel Cell replacement). I guess I didn’t have a expensive enough plane for them. I never spent another dollar there. I wasn’t a big dollar customer but I ordered all my Cessna parts through them. Hope they are out of business. I go back to Rainbow Air where I learned to fly and Foley’s where I kept our Cessna. Been several years since I’ve been to LGB.
When I did a tour of Panama we had a Baron camera plane that had been there for almost 10 years. Rumor has it that Baron overflew Cuba during the "missile crisis".
Interesting - thanks for message!
I love your videos and your job, if you need another pilot I’ll be happy to join you guys, happy flights.
Very pretty. I have a ‘76 with identical paint, 1680 TT. LOVE that airplane. N 28HP. Thanks for the video, appreciate your flying skills.
Very nice! Glad you enjoyed it!
My favorite channel
Thank you!
Hey Rich I know of a nice B55 Baron with the colemille IO-550 conversion
Send me the info.
Enjoyed the vid and Baron so much...I subscribed. Thanks.
Thanks a lot! That means a lot to us! More to come soon!
N31JB was our B55 tail number. Sold the number to NASCAR driver #31, Jeff Burton for the cost of repainting it. Great aircraft.
I sure love the 55 Barons!
Great job cap! 🇺🇸🥰
Im a student pilot at the Long Beach flying club this is so Cool watching ur videos. There’s always nice and interesting planes out
Thanks a lot and all the best for your flight training.
Thanks for tjis
Twin is definitely the way to go.....
Agree. Love the Barons!
Great Video! Nice plane too. Got my multi cert. in a 1967 Beech Travelair. Not the ideal plane for multi training. Ha ha
I have flown the Travelair- seems like there are a couple schools who use them for training - where did you get your multi?
@@FlyingwithRich Above All Aviation in Santa Barbara.
Issue with Left Engine #2 cylinder. EGT spiked during takeoff and died during Cruise. Nice plane.
Good catch. It’s an old EDM and I noticed it was erratic too. Not worth trying to fix it - lots of better options to upgrade. Thanks for watching.
The Barons are the Best of all piston twins
Inventory link doesn't work on your website. Just sits there will noting but the page template.
great video. btw and academic interest only, at oxnard what was your rationale for choice of left downwind over right?
I start ME training in a Baron B55 in like 3 hours! What are the chances of stumbling onto this video?? Haha Thank you!
Enjoy your training - thanks for watching!
There are no accidents, the algorithm knows everything about you lol
Holy smokes, is that a Northstar LORAN on the top of the stack? (under the audio panel, I mean) :-)
Watching more... it sure is... says "NOT READY YET". You'll have a long wait for that, LORAN-C went offline about a decade ago.
I shouldn't snark, that looks like a lovely plane. Put in a 750 and a pair of GI275s...
It is a NorthStar M1 Loran - the message not the screen reads, "NO POSITION INFO AT ALL"
@@FlyingwithRich Yes, I know them well.
We had one in our Cardinal from 1987 until 2019 when it was removed during our ADS-B upgrade, along with DME and ADF. Of course, LORAN-C has been OTS since 2009. It now rests in repose in a cardboard box in our hangar because we can't bear to junk it.
"NO POSITION INFO AT ALL" is what it displays after it's given up searching for LORAN stations....before that the left display shows "NOT READY YET" and the right alternates between "WESTERN U.S." (the installed database) and "SEARCH: GRI 9940" which was the West Coast station chain: Fallon NV, George WA , Middletown CA and Searchlight NV - see +01:51
Makes for good decorations - I love old avionics! Thanks for watching!
@@FlyingwithRich Nostalgia is all well and good, but I love flying with our two-year-old GTN750 in our 1977 model C-177B. We have a project laid on to replace the vacuum gyros with GI275s and this means replacing the "Nav-O-Matic" single axis analog autopilot. Your remarks about having a good autopilot like the KFC150 are appreciated; I've never flown with a good A/P but hope to have a GFC500 in the stack soon. Flying clubs are a great way to go; we have ten pilots sharing the Cardinal and it's kept in great condition.
Waaay back in the early 70s I never flew anything with an operable autopilot……and our BE58 Mitchell IIB (I think it was) never worked .
I never understood why exactly nobody cared .
That’s a beautiful airplane! Love the sounds of those engines. Can that Baron carry six pax with fuel and how much payload? What kind of range can you see at different payload capacity?
I believe that in 1975 they greatly simplified the fuel system, no real fuel management except you have to make sure you have some. Big plus. Fuelers are often looking for the extra fuel caps but there is only 1 per wing. You can load 6 passengers but not with full fuel (136 usable). Better make sure 5th and 6th seats have little tiny kids or a lot less fuel than topped off. Useful load is north of 1500 lbs but with full fuel youre left with about 700 lbs. 3 fat guys and full fuel and you’re at max weight. Then you have to make sure you’re in the weight and balance envelope. Easy with ForeFlight set up right. It can get dicey at max weight.
I flew my 78 Baron from ABQ to ca central coast at 2150 or 2200 and pumped 93 gallons on arrival so I had 43 gallons left. Yes, it took an extra 30 or 40 minutes but I didn’t have to land for gas enroute. I think the trip was 4.5 hours, 725 nm ish. When I did the math I used about 21 gph.
Great airplane, very stable and easy to fly. As with all light twins, stay away from Vmc. Lots of dead guys out there after messing with that for the sake of training. Rotate at 84 kts, positive rate gear up, and accelerate to blueline 99 kts. Only takes a few seconds.
Hey rich why did the have the manifold pressure at 25 and the prop at 24rpm? Any reason for running the torque pass the prop limit? VS 25^2
Don’t recall - normally would run at 24RPM and 24”. Thanks for watching.
did I miss the listing? looks like a project with a good foundation.
Sorry the listing is not online yet. I will post the link here for you once it's online! Thanks for watching!
@@FlyingwithRich thanks. Although if I had the money I’d take the 340 u have over this.
Great bird to re-furb!
Yes it is. Thanks for watching!
👍👍👍👍👍
Looling very nice! Did you say 15 gal/h? One side?
In cruise more like 12 gph. Thanks for watching!
I prefer the beech 76 dutchess
Nice airplane - thanks for watching!
Nice plane,wondering 15gph on both engines or just one?
15 gph per engine!
Could not find a listing either. It says on piston twins 0 listings.
Sorry the listing is not online yet. I will post the link here for you once it's online! Thanks for watching!
00:55 does that front tire seem a bit low? Maybe it's just me.
I didn’t see a price anywhere and the listing is gone, what did it end up selling for?
16:20 yeah buddy get the air compressor.
Nice video...if given the option, I'd go with the Seneca V over a Baron. Wider cabin, three screens, and counter-rotating props. :)
Comparing a Baron to a Seneca is like comparing a Bentley to a Kia
Always liked how Barons handled, but I HATED the throttle quadrant/yoke design. Not at all ergonomic.
What kind of layaway program Do u have?
Don't really have a law away program! Thanks for watching!
Rich, if you win the lotto, which GA plane would you buy and why?
I would probably buy a Citation Mustang for travel. In my opinion, one of, if not the best value in GA when you consider what you get for the money & cost to operate. If just for fun, short trips and some back country flying - Cessna 185. Thanks for watching!
How about you?
@@FlyingwithRich For domestic, cross country travel, I would love to have a phenom 300.. For shorter missions, the cirrus sr22T really appeals to me.. it’s like the BMW m3 of the sky lol. Thanks for replying, keep up the good work!
Gabe, I hope you don’t mind me chiming in! If I won the lotto, I’d buy either a PC-12 or a TBM 940. While I love jets and in fact worked for three years as a Citation II and V instructor for FSI, I’m not a high time pilot like Rich and probably you are. I recently read the entire POH on the Citation Mustang and loved its new features, etc. I’d have to fly the turboprops for awhile to get more experience before buying a Mustang (which I would love to do).
@@rfresh1011 I like the TBMs..They are sleek, fast and quite efficient when comparing to light jets.
When you say 170kt tas at 15gph. Is thay 15gph per side? Or total?
Per side at the altitude we were at.
@@FlyingwithRich thanks for the quick reply.
I figured it was per side, if you had told me total I would be adding a b55 to the list of planes I'm considering 😂
And you got a free power wash.
The best kind! Thanks for watching.
No quería mucho ver éste video, los recuerdos no son buenos, mi hermano gemelo perdió la vida pilotando un avión similar , tuvo un problema con los tanques auxiliares, se agotó el combustible y por alguna razón no pudo activar los estanques principales ocasionando falla de ambos motores a 3000 ft. tuvo oportunidad de realizar un aterrizaje forzoso en la carretera pero estaba atestada de vehículos, se desvió a una plantación de uvas , entró en stoll de ala izquierda , todos los ocupantes perecieron instantáneamente, el avión se incendió de inmediato 😢
Where's the listing? I don't see it on your web site.
Way behind. It’s not up yet. E-mail me and I’ll send you specs & more pics.
S t u n n I n g !🔥🔥🔥
Thanks for watching!
Rich you’re a jerk head….you fly everything and I’m jealous! Love ya man!
how do you rate the baron v c310
I like the Baron better, smaller cockpit but overall I’d take the Baron.
how much is this beuty?
It's going to be listed for around $150k.
How strong is this to take off and climb
Strong!
No, you won’t get 200 knots TAS out of it....but you’ll have a smile on your face trying.
Sounds like a good video - “200KTS in a stock 55 Baron!”
You do get 190.
What make and screen size is your ipad?
Mini iPad. Thanks for watching!
@@FlyingwithRich Thanks
What’s the asking price Rich? Nice B55. That’s the model I want.
Listing will be online soon. I will keep you posted! Thanks!
Been on some jets. Never a barron
Thanks for watching!
12:42 for all you wannabes take the total hp device by 10 then decide by 2 that will give you your total fuel burn lea
N of peeke average 300 a side 600 totalby2300 by 10 is 30 gph fcb
Nice video, Rich. I see a lot of cringe-worthy aviation content, yours is exactly the opposite. Nice heads-up aviating, buddy!