Beechcraft
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#Companies_based_in_Wichita,_Kansas
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#Manufacturing_companies_established_in_1932
#1932_establishments_in_Kansas
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#Companies_that_filed_for_Chapter_11_bankruptcy_in_2012
#American_companies_established_in_1932
Beechcraft is a brand of Textron Aviation since 2014.
Originally, it was a brand of Beech Aircraft Corporation, an American manufacturer of general aviation, commercial, and military aircraft,
ranging from light single-engined aircraft to twin-engined turboprop transports, business jets, and military trainers.
Beech later became a division of Raytheon and then Hawker Beechcraft before a bankruptcy sale turned its assets over to Textron （parent company of Beech's historical cross-town Wichita rival, Cessna Aircraft Company）.
It remains a brand of Textron Aviation.
1978 Beech Bonanza F33C 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, K. K. Shaul as treasurer, and investor C. G. Yankey as vice president.
The company began operations in an idle Cessna factory.
With designer Ted Wells, they developed the first aircraft under the Beechcraft name, the classic Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing, which first flew in November 1932.
Over 750 Staggerwings were built, with 270 manufactured for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Beechcraft was not Beech's first
company, as he had previously formed Travel Air in 1924 and the design numbers used at Beechcraft followed the sequence started at Travel Air,
and were then continued at Curtiss-Wright, after Travel Air had been absorbed into the much larger company in 1929.
Beech became president of the Curtiss-Wright's airplane division and VP of sales, but became dissat...
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