Links to Kansas Aviation History {bbott}

https://newterritorymag.com/literary-landscapes/john-joseph-mathews-osage-county-oklahoma/

After serving as a pilot during in World War I, studying at the University of Oklahoma, obtaining a degree in Natural Sciences from Oxford, and roaming around Europe, Mathews grew travel weary and was drawn back to the lands he knew intimately and loved. He returned home to allotted land on the Tallgrass prairie north of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, his birth town.

Found article and picture for Francis D. “Chief” Bowhan. Never knew his first name.

https://airandspace.si.edu/multimedia-gallery/nam-2231featuredjpg

History Aircraft manufacturers in Kansas

https://wingsoverkansas.com/legacy/a93/

main web page for above

https://wingsoverkansas.com/

Craig Miner is the historian I was thinking of At WSU.

Born 1944 died 2010

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/kansas/name/craig-miner-obituary?id=13996470

and from Wichita Eagle

Kansas' premier historian, Craig Miner, dies

https://www.kansas.com/news/article1040566.html

Craig was the second author of the South Kansas aircraft book

https://www.amazon.com/Borne-South-Wind-Frank-Joseph/dp/1880652331

from my web site:

https://ausbcomp.com/~bbott/subjects/aviaac.htm

https://ausbcomp.com/~bbott/winrr/planes.htm

Pictures from Paul Davis

https://ausbcomp.com/~bbott/winrr/winair/wa1.htm

Walter Beech

https://eaa1541.org/members/newsletters/december-2016/a-brief-history-of-the-people-who-created-the-light-aircraft-industry-in-the-u-s-part-2/

History of flight in Kansas predates Wright brothers
https://www2.ljworld.com/news/2003/dec/15/history_of_flight/

https://kansasaviationmuseum.org/aviation-timeline

Clyde Cessna

https://www.enidnews.com/news/local_news/clyde-cessna-s-legacy-connected-with-enid/article_0b53266b-cb9a-5966-9ae3-87cdbb998ab8.html

https://www.hutchnews.com/story/news/local/2014/07/05/in-terms-clyde-cessna-s/20903788007/

https://www.enidnews.com/news/local_news/cessna-brought-his-talent-to-share-with-enid/article_f403a110-498b-5f62-af5e-04dcea74f722.html

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2003/02/16/cessna-took-path-to-flight-in-oklahoma/62057625007/

https://www.historynet.com/clyde-cessna-sep-96-aviation-history-feature/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_Cessna

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/1991/11/06/cessnas-silver-wing-to-soar-again/62511743007/

https://firstflight.org/clyde-vernon-cessna/