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When Textron Aviation asked the Stefanopoulos family if they would consider changing their order for a Beechcraft King Air 350i to be the first customer to take delivery of the upgraded King Air 360, it was easy to say yes. The only question they had was why the company chose them since they are “just farmers out in the middle of California.”
The first-time aircraft owners soon realized that the sales team at Textron Aviation had noticed shared storylines between the history of the family’s Stamoules Produce Company and that of Beechcraft founders Walter and Olive Ann Beech.
Companies dating back to the late 1920s/ early 1930s, founders who were dreamers, untimely deaths, women leaders who stepped into roles that were unheard of in business at the time and longevity, at least partially
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