Wed, Sep 20, 2006
Founders Of Three Famous Companies Worked There First
Beech, Cessna, and
Stearman all share one thing in common. The people with those
famous aviation names all got their start working for the Travel
Air Airplane Manufacturing Company in Wichita, KS.
That's just one of the reasons the American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) will designate the former
airplane factory as a Historic Aerospace Site.
Builder of some of the most famous airplanes during the golden
age of aviation in the 1920's, the company produced the Travel Air
5000 and the sleek “Mystery Ship” air racer, winner of
the 1929 Thompson Trophy. Travel Air was the incubator in which
Wichita's present-day status as the world's "air capital" first
developed.
Walter Beech, Clyde Cessna, Lloyd Stearman and countless other
employees helped the company launch general aviation. Travel
Air promoted personal aircraft with the early
development of steel and tube construction, and developed the
monoplane into a safe, viable design.
The plant was also the site of the first municipal airport for
Wichita.
Other sites designated as an AIAA historic site include the
original Bendix Aviation Company in Teterboro, NJ; the Boeing Red
Barn in Seattle, WA; Kitty Hawk, NC; the site of the first
balloon launch in Annonay, France; and Tranquility Base on the
moon.
The dedication ceremony will take place on September 26 in
Wichita.
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