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Walter Beech came to Wichita, Kansas in 1921 to work for the E. M. Laird Company, producer of the Laird Swallow, a three-place, tandem, open-cockpit biplane. In attempting to demonstrate the reliability of the company's product and thereby increase sales, Beech won numerous air races.

Walter Herschel Beech was founder, president and board chairman of the Beech Aircraft Company. He was born on January 30, 1891 in Pulaski, TN. Beech landed at Tucson, arriving from Alamagordo, NM, on the morning of September 8, 1928. He carried Owen Harned as passenger in Travel Air NC4765.

Walter Beech (1891-1950) was an aviator and aircraft manufacturer. In 1932, after serving as a pilot in the U.S. Army, working as a test pilot and organizing his first company, Travel Air, he founded the Beech Aircraft Company, which incorporated in 1936. Beech produced the “Rolls Royce” of aircraft, the UC-43 Staggerwing, a superb aircraft ...

Walter Beech came from a farm in Tennessee. He built a glider at the age of 14 and served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War I. In 1921, he came to work for an airplane company in Wichita. Four years later he joined Lloyd Stearman and Cessna to form Travel Air Manufacturing Company. Here he met a woman named Olive Ann Mellor.

Walter Beech Formed the Travel Air Manufacturing Company in 1924 where it’s biplane won the Ford Reliability Tour in 1925 and 1926 . He and navigator Brice Goldsborough demonstrated the practicability of “blind flight” in their instrumented Beech Travel Air “Special” biplane during the 1926 Ford Reliability Tour.

Olive Ann Beech (September 25, 1903 – July 6, 1993) was an American aerospace businesswoman who was the co-founder, president, and chairwoman of the Beech Aircraft Corporation. She founded the company in 1932 with her husband, Walter Beech, and a team of three others.

Walter Beech, co-founder of Beech Aircraft Corporation, was one of the early enlisted pilots who achieved notoriety. He was a World War I pilot and became a member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame. Bob Hoover, a World War II pilot, is also listed in the Aviation Hall of Fame and is considered one of the great test pilots of all time.