Wed, Sep 20, 2017
Also Commemorates 70 Years Of Continuous Production Of The Beech Bonanza
The American Bonanza Society (ABS) celebrates half a century of service to owners and pilots of Beechcraft Bonanzas, Barons, Debonairs and Travel Airs with its 50th Anniversary Convention in Wichita, Kansas September 21-24, 2017. The ABS Convention will attract over 800 members and an estimated 350 Beech airplanes to the Wichita area for three days of pilot and maintenance safety seminars, social activities, and the largest piston Beechcraft-specific exhibit and trade show.
Filling all the available aircraft parking at three airports in the Wichita area caused ABS to sell out registration almost three weeks before the event. Anticipated numbers of aircraft will fill all parking space at Wichita’s Colonel James Jabara Airport, Stearman Field in Benton, Kansas, and all space made available on Wichita Eisenhower National Airport. Most airplanes will be arriving on Wednesday, September 20 and Thursday, September 21, and departing Sunday, September 24.
Convention activities will center on the Wichita Hyatt Regency Hotel, where social activities will take place, and the Wichita Convention Center, host to seminars and the exhibit hall. The ABS Hangar Party, sponsored by Wichita-based Mid-Continent Instruments and Avionics, will be hosted Friday evening in the Midwest Corporate Aviation facility at Jabara Airport. The ABS Hangar Party will also feature a 15-airplane 70 Years of Bonanzas display with examples of various models of the iconic Beech Bonanza. Textron Aviation has opened its factory to a small number of Convention attendees for tours during the ABS Convention.
All ABS Convention events are open to pre-registered ABS members and their guests only.
(Images provided with ABS news release)
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