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This article published in the Wichita Eagle covers the death of aviation pioneer Clyde V. Cessna. Cessna, who died at the age of 74, first became involved with aviation in 1911 when he built and flew his first airplane. By 1917, Cessna moved to Wichita, Kansas, and set up his first factory which produced a six-cylinder powered monoplane.
Creator: Wichita Eagle
Date: November 21, 1954
This article on Cessna's death can be used to help students review Cessna's accomplishments and his importance to the American aviation industry.
KS: 7th: 4.6.: significance of the work of entrepreneurial Kansans to the aviation industry
Item Number: 213468
Call Number: K629.13, Aviation Clippings, Vol. 6
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 213468
Business and Industry - Aviation - Production - Cessna
Collections - Library
Curriculum - 7th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1880s to 1920s (Benchmark 4) - Aviation entrepreneurs (Indicator 6) - Clyde Cessna
Date - 1950s - 1954
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 - Companies - Cessna
Type of Material - Newspapers - Clippings
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