JULIUS EARL SCHAEFER
Known for his innovative leadership skills and entrepreneurial abilities, he became an internationally respected aviation executive. […]
Year: 2002
Historic Aircraft Photo Gallery, Series C
This is the 3rd in a series of aircraft designed, built and flown by more than 25 aircraft companies that called Wichita “home” during the years 1919 to 1934. […]
Edward H. Phillips
Edward H. Phillips is a general aviation researcher, historian and author. […]
Historic Aircraft Photo Gallery, Series B
This is the second in a series of aircraft designed and built by the more than 25 aircraft companies that called Wichita “home” during the years 1919 to 1934. […]
Clay Lacy, President, Clay Lacy Aviation
While other Midwest boys were riding bicycles, building treehouses and spending lazy summer afternoons fishing in the Arkansas River, Clay became interested in model airplanes at age 5. […]
Historic Aircraft Photo Gallery, Series A
This is the first in a series of aircraft designed and built by the more than 25 aircraft companies that called Wichita “home” during the years 1919 to 1934. […]
Kansas Department of Transportation/Division of Aviation
Mike Armour, Director of Aviation for the state has created a valuable website for pilots flying in Kansas. […]
FRANK E. HEDRICK
As a former president of Beech Aircraft Corporation in Wichita, Frank E. Hedrick believed that a person should do any job assigned better than the job had ever been done before. […]
War created whirlwind in Wichita
One magazine at the time likened it to a storm sweeping across the Kansas Plains and into Wichita – “a $62 million tornado in a town of 120,000.” […]
WWII Kept Air Capital Hopping
War created demand for aircraft workers, housing […]