Walter Herschel Beech, co-founder of Beechcraft Aircraft; born in Giles County, TN.
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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.