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Cessna’s new monoplane was the company’s only postwar design powered by a static, air-cooled radial engine, and proved popular with private pilots as well as business aviation operators. (Robert J. Pickett Collection/ Textron Aviation)
Far away in Wichita, Kansas, however, the hard-working, patriotic employees of the Cessna Aircraft Company could be proud of a job well done, as could workers at Beech Aircraft Corporation and the Wichita Division of the Boeing Airplane Company. By late 1944 it looked increasingly certain that the Axis powers would be defeated by the Allied nations, and as demand for the weapons of war slowed, airframe manufacturers turned their attention to the design and production of commercial aircraft. In the summer of 1945, with Germany defeated and Japan’s empire in its death throes, the United States Defense Commission had begun