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This article sums up the accomplishments of the many Kansas airplane manufacturing companies since 1919, including the Wichita based Swallow Company, Travel Air, Inc., and Cessna Aircraft Company. In addition, the article points to a bright future for Kansas-based aviation companies.
Creator: Topeka Capital
Date: December 31, 1927
This article is important because it helps students understand the importance of Kansas to the U.S. aviation industry during the 1920s.
KS: 7th: 4.6.A.: significance of the work of entrepreneurial Kansans in the aviation industry
Item Number: 213299
Call Number: K629.13, Aviation Clippings, Vol. 1, 1909-1930, pg. 176
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 213299
Business and Industry - Aviation - Production
Collections - Library
Curriculum - 7th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1880s to 1920s (Benchmark 4) - Aviation entrepreneurs (Indicator 6) - Clyde Cessna
Date - 1920s - 1927
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Newspaper - clipping
People - Notable Kansans - Cessna,Clyde,1879-1954
Places - Cities and towns - Wichita
Places - Counties - Sedgwick
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Transportation - Air Travel - Aeroplanes
Type of Material - Newspapers - Clippings
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