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IN HISTORY
26 • KING AIR MAGAZINE
SEPTEMBER 2020
Production of the C/UC-78 during the war exceeded 2,000 airplanes, making it the most numerous military version of Cessna’s versatile twin-engine T-50. (Edward H. Phillips Collection)
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Technically, the name “Bobcat” only applied to the AT-17. The most common nickname applied to any T-50 is “Bamboo Bomber.”
By early 1942 the company had delivered 25 commercial T-50s including six to the CAA and another 14 to the Pan American Airways System. The PAA ships were built to the same standard as the Crane I.
The U.S. military also impressed a small number of Airmasters and aging Cessna DC-6 cabin monoplanes from 1929-1930. The C-34 and C-37 ships were designated UC-77B and UC-77D, while the C-165 was operated as C/UC-94. The old DC-6A and DC-6B were UC-77 and UC-77A.
In 1941 Dwane L. Wallace married his long- time secretary, Velma Lunt. He became the company’s Chairman of the Board in 1964 and retired in 1982. He died in December 1989. Wallace is remembered as one of America’s visionary aviation leaders who played a key role in making Wichita “The Air Capital of the World.”
Ed Phillips, now retired and living in the South, has researched and written eight books on the unique and rich aviation history that belongs to Wichita, Kansas. His writings have focused on the evolution of the airplanes, companies and people that have made Wichita the “Air Capital of the World” for more than 80 years.
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