Beechcraft 76 Duchess
Beech's light twin trainer from 1978 with counter-rotating engines (no critical engine), a T-tail and retractable gear. Still a common aircraft for MEP class rating training.
Performance
- Cruise speed
- 160 kt
- Never-exceed speed (VNE)
- 194 kt
- Range
- 780 nm
- Service ceiling
- 19,650 ft
- Rate of climb
- 1,248 ft/min
Fuel
- Fuel type
- AVGAS 100LL
- Usable fuel
- 378 l
- Total capacity
- 390 l
- Wing tanks
- 2 × 195 l
- Fuel burn (cruise)
- 79 l/h
- Usable fuel weighs
- 272 kg
Fuel burn in cruise at 5,000 ft.
Runway
- Minimum runway
- 646 m
- Take-off distance over 15 m (50 ft)
- 646 m
- Landing distance from 15 m (50 ft)
- 573 m
- Usable surfaces
- Asphalt · Concrete · Grass
The longer of take-off and landing distance. At 1,769 kg, ISA, sea level, dry paved runway, no wind.
Cockpit and systems
- Cockpit
- Analog gauges
- Systems
- Constant-speed propeller · Retractable gear
Weights and capacity
- Max passengers
- 3
- Minimum crew
- 1
- Cockpit seats
- 2
- Max take-off weight (MTOW)
- 1,769 kg
- Max landing weight
- 1,769 kg
- Empty weight
- 1,110 kg
Licence and training
- Licences that cover it
- PPL(A)
- Class rating
- MEP (land)
- Extra training or endorsements
- Variable-pitch propeller · Retractable gear · Complex endorsement (FAA)
EASA terms. Other authorities name and split ratings differently.
Flight rules and approvals
- Flight rules
- Certified for IFR
- Approvals
- Night VFR
Assumes the usual equipment. The aircraft's own documents decide what it may fly.
Type
- Manufacturer
- Beechcraft
- Category
- Aeroplane
- Engines
- 2× Piston
- ICAO type designator
- BE76
- Wake turbulence category
- L · Light
- In service since
- 1978
Scale drawing
- Length
- 8.85 m
- Wingspan
- 11.58 m
- Height
- 2.9 m
- Fuselage width
- 1.2 m
- Propeller diameter
- 1.93 m
Drawn to scale from the published length, span and height; finer shapes are approximate.
Size comparison
- Beechcraft 76 DuchessLength 8.85 m
- Piper PA-44-180 SeminoleLength 8.41 m
All drawn at one scale. The person is 1.8 m tall.
Speeds
- White arc: flaps may be used
- Green arc: normal operating range
- Yellow arc: caution, smooth air only
- Red line: never exceed
- Blue line: best rate of climb on one engine
- Red radial: minimum control speed
- 60 kt
- 70 kt
- 65 kt
- 71 kt
- 71 kt
- 85 kt
- 85 kt
- 85 kt
- 95 kt
- 132 kt
- 110 kt
- 140 kt
- 154 kt
- 194 kt
Typical published values for the named variant, for learning only. Always fly with the aircraft's own flight manual (POH/AFM).
Fly the Beechcraft 76 Duchess in the simulator
Practise your radio calls with this aircraft type in the AI ATC simulator.
