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Travel Air was the launching pad for key personalities who would make their mark on American aviation, including (clockwise from upper left) Clyde Cessna; Lloyd Stearman, shown in 1924 with the New Swallow biplane he’d designed; Olive Ann Mellor, hired in early 1925 as a company secretary and office manager; and Walter Beech, shown with a 1928 Travel Air A6000A. (Source: Edward H. Phillips Collection)]
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