I figure an aircraft buff frequenting this forum could tell me what this odd-looking plane was that I saw the other day.

Description:

Medium size (midway between a large passenger jet and a small private recreational craft)

Conventional looking wings, body, and tail except for the nose of the plane. It had lateral projections coming from it that made it look like a hammerhead shark.

I saw this same plane several years ago, so I don't think that it is necessarily a new concept, but rather some kind of a modification for a specific purpose.

Thanks in advance to who ever nails this one for me.

Perhaps you could provide some more info such as a basic sketch? That would certainly help narrow down the possibilities.

My first instinct was to also name the Piaggio as the likely culprit, however you seem fairly certain that it was not it.

The Starship also came to mind but I doubt that is what you saw as 1). You described it as having a fairly conventional layout and the Beech doesn't fit that description too well. 2). There are very few if any Starships now flying as the company ceased production, withdrew support for them and even bought up and destroyed most of the airframes in a swap deal with then Starship owners.

LEE.

You mentioned the sound it made, and the Piaggo Avanti does indeed make a very distinct, unique sound. An owner can paint it however they want, are you sure it isn't an Avanti? Its too bad you couldn't have gotten the tail number, than itd just take a few seconds to find out exactly what it was.

I was doing a search on google for plane that looks like a hammerhead and got routed here ( my fav place). I was doing yard work the other day and a weird sounding plane made me look up and my first thought was the plane looked like a hammerhead. I looked at all the pics that were posted and none of them seem right. It really was cool looking