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    Airframe Family: BeecH Wee Bee
    Latest Model:Wee Bee
    Last Civil Registration:NX90840
    Compressed ID:BeecH Wee Bee cr NX90840
    Latest Owner or Location:San Diego Air and Space Museum, Balboa Park, San Diego, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Wee Bee.

    To unknown owner with c/r NX90840.

    To San Diego Air and Space Museum, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA.
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    21 November 1948


    Photographer: Associated Press
    Notes: Nov. 21, 1948: The Wee-Bee, at the time the worlds smallest piloted plane. This Beecraft creation weighed 150 pounds, had no cockpit -- the pilot was strapped to the fuselage -- and the landing gear was made out of tricycle wheels. (Associated Press)

    18 October 2017


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: The original prototyp Wee Bee, build 1948, was destroyed in the big San Diego Aerospace Museum fire in 1978. The replica of the smallest aircraft to carry a pilot was build in 1978 and is now at San Diego, CA.
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