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Beech Aircraft Corporation,

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:125.00 USD Estimated At:250.00 - 500.00 USD
Beech Aircraft Corporation,

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Auction Date:2007 Jan 31 @ 09:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
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DE. 1968. Specimen. $5,000. 4?% convertbile registered bond due 1993. Vignette of 2 allegorical men with airplane propeller and small planes in background. The company's founder was Walter Herschel Beech. Beech and another local aviator named Lloyd Stearman decided to start their own business and formed the Travel Air Company. In 1925, Clyde Cessna and Beech started a partnership that was relatively short lived. Travel Air began as a very successful venture. The company's planes garnered numerous awards of their design and won many flight comepetitions- often when piloted by Walter Beech. Early designs were powered by Curtiss-Wright engines, marking the beginning of an important business relationship. However, a conflict arose between Beech and Cessna, the company's president. Although Travel Air was recording decent sales from its line of biplanes, Cessna was determined that the company should immediately begin work on a new single-wing design. Beech and Cessna split up when Cessna wanted to work on a new single wing airplane and Beech did not. Beech was invited to make Travel Air part of the powerful Curtiss-Wright Corp., which represented the surviving business interests of aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss and the Wright Brothers. Travel Air merged with Curtiss-Wright in 1930 and as part of the deal, Beech was asked to serve as president of the company. The year also marked Beech's marriage to Olive Ann Mellor, who had been working as the office manager for Travel Air. Beech continued to work with her husband, now in the capacity of business advisor, at which she proved highly adept, having thoroughly learned about the aircraft industry. On November 29, 1950, Walter Beech died suddenly of a heart attack. He was succeeded by his wife, Olive Ann, who became one of the first female chief executives in American business. Facimile signature of O.A. Beech. ABNC. XF.