| A History of Kansas Aviation |
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| Photo of Albin K.. Longren's
first airplane Date: 1911 |
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| 1912 |
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| Albin K. Longren's No. 6,
Model G airplane Photo of Phillip Billard sitting in Albin K. Longren's No. 6, Model G airplane which was built in 1911 Date: Between 1916 and 1920 |
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| Albin K. Longren's No. 6,
Model G airplane Photo of Albin K. Longren's No.. 6, Model G airplane surrounded by a group of unidentified people Date: Between 1911 and 1916 |
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| Albin Longren's first airplane
View of Albin Longren's first airplane in Winfield, Kansas .. Date: November 25, 1911 |
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| Cessna airplane Photo of "Silver Wings," a Cessna monoplane in flight. Date: 1911 |
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| Clyde Cessna A view of aviation pioneer Clyde Vernon Cessna, 1879-1954, founder of Cessna Aircraft Company of Wichita , Kansas , and spectators with his aeroplane at Burdett , Kansas . Date: 1914 |
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| Clyde Cessna Clyde Cessna & his 1916 airplane; The first built in Wichita,KS; Photo taken at Beaver, OK with part of the Beaver Boosters. Date: 1916 |
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| Clyde Cessna Date: Unknown |
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| Flying machine, Goodland ,
Kansas 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. Date: Around 1910 |
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| Laird Swallows 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 . Date: Between 1920 and 1925 |
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| Longren's airplane company Albin K. Longren's airplane plant Topeka, Kansas .. Date: Between 1910 and 1920 |
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| Longren's biplane Albin K. Longren's biplane Date: Between 1910 and 1920 |
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| Walter Herschel Beech Walter H. Beech, 1891-1951, (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. |
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| Walter Herschel Beech and
Olive Ann Beech 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 . Date: Between 1940 and 1945 |