Albin K. Longren airplane
> Photo of Albin K. Longren's first airplane
> Date: 1911
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Albin K. Longren's No. 6, Model G airplane Photo of Phillip Billard
> sitting in Albin K. Longren's No. 6, Model G airplane which was built
> in 1916
> Date: Between 1916 and 1920


Albin K. Longren's No. 6, Model G airplane Photo of Albin K. Longren's
> No. 6, Model G airplane surrounded by a group of unidentified people
> Date: Between 1911 and 1916


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> Clyde Cessna
> A view of aviation pioneer Clyde Vernon Cessna, 1879-1954, founder of Cessna Aircraft Company of Wichita, Kansas, and spectators with his aeroplane at Burdett, Kansas.
> Date: 1914



Laird Swallows
> A view of four new Laird Swallow airplanes parked in a field at 29th and Hillside Streets in Wichita, Kansas. Designed by aviation pioneer Emil Matthew "Matty" Laird, 1886-1982, the first Swallow was built for the commercial market in 1920 by Laird Swallow Manufacturing Company of Wichita.
> Date: Between 1920 and 1925



Flying machine, Goodland, Kansas
> This photograph shows the Goodland flying machine, a forerunner of the helicopter, designed and patented by William Purvis and Charles Wilson of Goodland, Kansas. Purvis and Wilson built the ship about 1910. The engine was apparently too small and the machine never flew.
> Date: Around 1910



Unknown Jenny?


Walter Herschel Beech
> Walter H. Beech, 1891-1951, (left) pilot and President of Beech Aircraft Corporation, and Brice H. Goldsborough, of the Pioneer Instrument Corp. and navigator, standing by a Travel Air built by Beech. They demonstrated the practicability of "blind flight" and won the 1926 Ford Reliability Tour.
> Date: 1926



Walter Herschel Beech and Olive Ann Beech Walter Herschel Beech,
> 1891-1951, and Olive Ann Beech, 1903-1993, viewing World War II aircraft production lines at the Beechcraft Plant I in Wichita, Kansas.
> Date: Between 1940 and 1945

Enjoy - and I hope I have the labels all in the right places. There's more - Phew!! - but I'm tired of posting them up. Maybe later?

Interesting pictures, thanks for sharing!