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Albin K. Longren's first airplane. Circa 1911.


Photo of Phillip Billard sitting in Albin K. Longren's No. 6 Model G airplane. Date: between 1911 - 1920.


"Silver Wings", a Cessna monoplane in flight. (circa 1911)


A view of aviation pioneer Clyde Vernon Cessna (1879-1954), founder of Cessna Aircraft Company of Wichita, Kansas, and spectators with his aeroplane in Burdett, Kansas. (circa 1914)


Clyde Cessna and his 1916 airplane - the first built in Wichita, Kansas. Photo taken in Beaver, Oklahoma with part of the Beaver Boosters. (circa 1916)


Clyde Cessna (?)


This photograph shows the Goodland flying machine, a forerunner of the helicopter, designed and patented by William Purvis and Charles Wilson of Goodland, Kansas. Purvis and Wilson built the ship about 1910. The engine was apparently too small and the machine never flew. (circa 1910)


A view of four new Laird Swallow airplanes parked in a field at 29th and Hillside Streets in Wichita, Kansas. Designed by aviation pioneer Emil Matthew "Matty" Laird (1886-1982), the first Swallow was built for the commercial market in 1920 by Laird Swallow Manufacturing Company of Wichita. (circa 1920-1925)


Albin K. Longren's airplane plant Topeka, Kansas (circa 1910-1920)


Albin K. Longren's biplane (circa 1910-1920)


Walter H. Beech (left) pilot and President of Beech Aircraft Corporation, and Brice H. Goldsborough of the Pioneer Instrument Corp. and navigator, standing by a Travel Air built by Beech. They demonstrated the practicability of "blind flight" and won the 1926 Ford reliability Tour. (circa 1926)


Walter Herschel Beech (1891-1951) and Olive Ann Beech (1903-1993) viewing World War II aircraft production lines at the Beechcraft Plant I in Wichita, Kansas between 1940 and 1945.




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