In the years following World War I public interest in private flying increased, leading Cessna in 1925, along with Walter Beech and Lloyd Stearman, to found the Travel Air Manufacturing Company in Wichita, Kansas.
Lloyd Stearman, an American aviation pioneer, and founder of Stearman Aircraft
Designer Lloyd Stearman said that it was the best airplane he ever designed.
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Laird hired several aviators that became prominent in the business later, Buck Weaver who would co-found Waco Aircraft, Walter Beech, and Lloyd Stearman who would develop the Swallow New Swallow.