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IN HISTORY
Beechcraft – Diversify or Die
During the late 1940s and into the 1950s the cyclical nature of the commercial and military aviation business forced the Beech Aircraft Corporation
to seek new sources of revenue to survive
by Edward H. Philips
“It is said – not by us at Beechcraft but by those whose profession it is to know such things, that the history of general aviation is, in the main, the history of Beechcraft,” said Frank E. Hedrick, executive vice president of
the company during his address to the Newcomen Society September 28, 1967.1
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