Sergeant 1st Class Walter H. Beech - Specific Veteran Memorials on Waymarking.com

UC-45
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Sergeant 1st Class Walter H. Beech

Walter Beech, who trained as an enlisted aviator toward the end of World War I, gained little fame as a military aviator, but went on to become a premier aircraft designer and builder.  Beech had been flying since July 1914,  so it was only natural for me, although enlisted, to become a flight instructor in 1917.  However, his natural talent in remodeling aircraft and engines soon led him in a different direction.  One of his first projects while serving at Kelly Field in San Antonio was to convert a JN-4 "Jenny" for use as an air ambulance.  After the war, he began associations with the top airplane manufacturers of the time, Glen Curtis, Clyde Cessna, and Lloyd Stearman, at the height of the Great Depression, Beech took a real flier and formed his own company, Beech Aircraft.  The UC-45, aversion of his popular "Twin Beech," was used by the Army and the Navy.  He delivered more than 7,400 by the end of World War II.  Beech was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1977. ~ text of plaque

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