Click to open image viewer. The Model 17, the first aircraft produced by the new Beech Aircraft Company of Wichita, Kansas, was a gamble for president Walter Beech and vice-president Ted Wells who was ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Opera Kansas is taking people back to the 1930s to showcase women who made a mark on the aviation industry, including Olive Ann Beech. “Staggerwing” focuses on the historic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Staggerwing” tells the story of Louise Thaden and Blanche Noyes, who competed and won the transcontinental Bendix Trophy Race in ...

In 1973, representatives of the staggerwing club approached Beech Aircraft chairwoman Olive Ann Beech with a plan: They wanted to create a museum dedicated to her company’s Model 17 Staggerwing, an ...

The Kansas Aviation Museum will open its new Beechcraft exhibit to the public today from 5 to 7 p.m. The exhibit – Beechcraft: A Legacy – will feature the Wichita-based company and brand from its ...

Recently a friend sent me a blurb from another aviation magazine about the restoration of a Beech Staggerwing — arguably the ultimate classic airplane — by the Kansas Aviation Museum. He knew I’d be ...

Let us paint the scene for you. The year is 1944, and you're fresh back at home in the U.S. after a tour in the Pacific theater of World War II as an F4F Wildcat pilot during the Battles of the Coral ...

When “Staggerwing” was performed by Opera Kansas as winner of the Zepick Modern Opera Competition in July 2021, its composers were certain it still had gas left in the tank. “People love the story,” ...

"Staggerwing" focuses on the historic flight of Blanche Noyes and Louise Thaden, who won the 1936 Bendix Trophy Air Race, the first year female teams could compete. Their plane was a Beechcraft ...