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IN HISTORY
26 • KING AIR MAGAZINE
APRIL 2020
Above: A rare photograph of the first Laird “Tractor” (later renamed Swallow) after it was completed in April 1920. A war-surplus Curtiss OX-5 engine powered the biplane. (Joan Laird Post Collection)
Year of the Swall
A century ago, the Laird Swallow launched Wichita, Kansas, on its way to becoming the
“Air Capital of the World.”
by Edward H. Philips
