| BD-1 | |
|---|---|
| Role | Light aircraft |
| National origin | United States of America |
| Manufacturer | Bede Aviation Corporation |
| Designer | Jim Bede |
| First flight | July 11, 1963[1] |
| Variants | Grumman American AA-1 |
The Bede BD-1 was a two-seat, single-engine, low-wing monoplane, the first design of American aeronautical engineer Jim Bede. The BD-1 was designed in 1960 as a kit-built aircraft intended for home assembly by amateur builders.[2] Design goals included a kit price of $US 2500, including a rebuilt 100 hp (75 kW) engine and a cruise speed of 130 knots (240 km/h). The prototype N624BD first flew in 1962.[3][4]
No kits were sold however, and it was not until Bede had been removed from the company and the design was reworked - including the removal of the folding wing feature - that it entered production as the American Aviation AA-1 Yankee, forerunner of the Grumman-American line of light aircraft.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Janes 65 p179was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ BD Corp (2004). "History of BedeCorp". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-11.
- ^ Skip Stagg (1997). "Grumman, Where It All Began". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-24.
- ^ Davisson, Budd: "Bede's BD-4," March, 1991, Air Progress, (as OCR-scanned and posted on the author's website as "Jim Bede's High-speed Packing Crate: the BD-4: A classic, fast mover"), retrieved June 24, 2023
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