Walter Herschel Beech (January 30, 1891 – November 29, 1950) was an American aviator and early aviation entrepreneur who co-founded the Beech Aircraft...
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Beechcraft (redirect from Beech Aircraft)
Company was founded in Wichita, Kansas, in 1932 by Walter Beech as president, his wife Olive Ann Beech as secretary, Ted A. Wells as vice president of engineering...
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Aircraft Corporation. She founded the company in 1932 with her husband, Walter Beech, and a team of three others. She earned more awards, honorary appointments...
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Beech (Fagus) is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Eurasia and North America. There are 13 accepted species in two...
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Beechcraft T-34 Mentor (redirect from Beech T-34)
Walter Beech, who developed it as the Beechcraft Model 45 private venture at a time when there was no defense budget for a new trainer model. Beech hoped...
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established in Wichita, Kansas, United States in January 1925 by Clyde Cessna, Walter Beech, and Lloyd Stearman. An early leader in single-engine, light-aircraft...
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wife of Walter Beech Sandra Beech (born c. 1942), Canadian children's musician Terry Beech (born 1980 or 1981), Canadian politician Walter Beech (1891–1950)...
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and their brothers, Walter H. Lipe and David Zieley, and Bartlett Arkell, founded The Imperial Packing Co. for the production of Beech-Nut ham. The product...
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Swallow Airplane Company. Two early Swallow employees, Lloyd Stearman and Walter Beech, went on to found two prominent Wichita-based companies, Stearman Aircraft...
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from Tennessee Keyes Beech, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; born in Pulaski Walter Beech, pioneer aviator, founder of Beech Aircraft and Travel Air...
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Anzani engine. The aircraft was modified by Cessna, Lloyd Stearman, and Walter Beech that fall. A second aircraft was built that December, and featured a...
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instead found use in the private business aircraft and military market. Walter Beech test flew the aircraft in 1949 and expressed interest in buying the project...
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interest in private flying increased, leading Cessna in 1925, along with Walter Beech and Lloyd Stearman, to found the Travel Air Manufacturing Company in...
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22. That same year, he bought an OX-5-powered Travel Air biplane from Walter Beech and established the Valley Flying Service. This service sold scenic rides...
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Quiet Birdmen on June 14, 2010. Buzz Aldrin Edwin Eugene Aldrin Sr. Walter Beech Floyd Bennett Forrest Bird Ennio Bolognini Arthur Raymond Brooks Jack...
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Havilland, Lt. John Arthur Macready, Lt. Oakley G. Kelly, Carl Dixon, Walter Beech, Charles Lindbergh, Wiley Post, Roscoe Turner, Clyde Cessna, Ivan Gates...
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Manufacturing Company, soon rising to chief engineer. Every spring, company boss Walter Beech would come into the engineering department and suggest that they convert...
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17. Walter Beech, Olive Ann Beech, Ted Wells, K.K. Shaul and C.G. Yankey become the principle founders of Beech Aircraft in April 1932. Walter Beech was...
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1924. In September 1927, Travel Air founder Clyde Cessna split from Walter Beech forming Cessna-Roos aircraft. Roos became the second largest shareholder...
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Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing (redirect from Beech Staggerwing)
farther forward than the upper wing). It first flew in 1932. In 1932, Walter H. Beech, formerly head of the aircraft manufacturer Travel Air, left Curtiss-Wright...
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as a demonstration aircraft to promote the company. Company president Walter Beech was initially hesitant to interrupt production of customer orders to...
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Australian bomber pilot and Victoria Cross Recipient (b. 1916) 1950 – Walter Beech, American aviator and early aviation entrepreneur (b. 1891) 1953 – Sam...
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Keyes Beech (August 13, 1913 – February 15, 1990) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, best known for his reporting on World War II, the...
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customers was the Travel Air Corporation in Wichita, Kansas, owned by Walter Beech. Beech liked McPhetridge and offered her a job as a sales representative...
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Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (/stoʊ/; June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American author and abolitionist. She came from the religious Beecher family and...
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Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 – March 8, 1887) was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of...
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family include: Beecher, Illinois, named after Henry Ward Beecher and Beecher Island, named after Lt. Fredrick H. Beecher. The American Beecher family began...
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January – Bruno Loerzer, German military aviator (died 1960) 30 January – Walter Beech, American aircraft manufacturer (died 1950) 18 February – Julius Busa...
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include the Colonel James Jabara Airport and Beech Field. From 1927 to 1929, Travel Air, with Walter Beech at the helm, grew to over 600 employees and...
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and Walter Beech, but subsequently rejected by Swallow president Jake Moellendick, a decision which triggered the departure of both Stearman and Beech, and...
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