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These two photographs show the Travel Air Company's Model 2000 biplane. Powered by air-cooled Wright Whirlwind J-5 engines, many Model 2000s were used as training planes as late as 1942.
Date: 1925
In describing Kansas transportation past and present, the transportation by plane is an important part of the discussion. Use this photograph in a sequence to show how transportation has changed over time.
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Item Number: 213356
Call Number: TL.500 Tra.A 2000.*1-2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 213356
Business and Industry - Aviation - Production - Travel Air Company
Collections - Photograph
Curriculum - 2nd Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - Individuals and developments (Benchmark 1) - Transportation in Kansas (Indicator 1)
Curriculum - 7th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1880s to 1920s (Benchmark 4) - Aviation entrepreneurs (Indicator 6) - Clyde Cessna
Curriculum - 7th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1880s to 1920s (Benchmark 4) - Aviation entrepreneurs (Indicator 6) - Lloyd Stearman
Curriculum - 7th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1880s to 1920s (Benchmark 4) - Aviation entrepreneurs (Indicator 6) - Travel Air Company
Curriculum - 7th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1880s to 1920s (Benchmark 4) - Aviation entrepreneurs (Indicator 6) - Walter and Olive Beech
Date - 1920s - 1925
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Notable Kansans - Beech, Walter Herschel, 1891-1950
People - Notable Kansans - Cessna,Clyde,1879-1954
People - Notable Kansans - Stearman, Lloyd C., 1898-1975
Places - Cities and towns - Wichita
Places - Counties - Sedgwick
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Transportation - Air Travel - Aeroplanes
Transportation - Air Travel - Companies - Travel Air
Type of Material - Photographs
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