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Title: The Curtain Rises on Air Travel
Description: Article referring to Kansas City as "the center geographically and industrially" in the aviation industry.
Date: 1929-05-28
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Air Age Here: Kansas City to Be One of World's Leading Aviation Centers
Description: Photo and article about the transcontinental passenger service here.
Date: 1929-06-25
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Department of Commerce Approves National Aircraft Welding School
Description: Description of the new school at "324 West 6th Trafficway" for aircraft production.
Date: 1929-05-28
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: A 4-Brother Team Wins Acclaim in Metal Craft
Description: Article about the Swedish family business involved in manufacturing aircraft parts and lamp fixtures.
Date: 1955-09-04
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Tribute to Mid-West: Area Praised at Pratt & Whitney Farewell Dinner
Description: Article reviewing the short but busy history of the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Corporation in Kansas City. It was a manufacturing complex for the World War II effort, completed in August 1943 with its first airplane engine produced in December 1943.
Date: 1945-09-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Airplane before Hangar
Description: Full frontal and side view of Executive Aircraft Company; located at 701 Perimeter Road.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Airplane Hangar, Interior
Description: Interior view of hangar at Executive Aircraft Company.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Airplanes in Hangar
Description: Interior view of hangar at Executive Aircraft Company.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Airplane Hangar, Interior
Description: Interior view of hangar at Executive Aircraft Company.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Engine Plant to WAA: RFC Passes Control of Former Pratt & Whitney Factory
Description: News about the former Pratt & Whitney aircraft engine manufacturing plant, the "largest Kansas City war plant," vacant but planned for use by civilian light industry companies.
Date: 1946-12-17
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Kansas City Concern Makes Planes: Butler Aircraft Corporation. ..
Description: Butler Aircraft Corporation in production on two models.
Date: 1928-12-18
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: B-25 Bombers at Fairfax
Description: Harry Desko and wife Alice give a short overview of their work at the plant in the Fairfax district in Kansas City, Kansas, where the B-25 Bombers were built during World War II.
Date: 2005-01
Object Type: Newsletter Article

Title: Kansas City as an Aviation Center
Description: Photo and article about the logical center of aircraft manufacture being Kansas City.
Date: 1928-12-18
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: A Brief History of Manufacturing
Description: Manuscript surveys the history of the Pratt & Whitney/Westinghouse plant in Kansas City, Missouri from 1942 through the 1990s, concentrating particularly on the war years. Numerous copies of photographs, other graphics, and clippings accompany the text.
Date: 2003~
Object Type: Manuscript

Title: Fast-Paced Growth at Continental Disc
Description: Article describing the Continental Disc company in Riverside, Missouri, "the second-largest manufacturer in its industry" of producing "rupture disc components" for space shuttles.
Date: 1982-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Edward Porterfield, Jr.
Description: Reprint of an article from Kansas City Star clippings (June 26, 1927) about Edward Porterfield, Jr., designer and operator of the airplane manufacturing plant at 24th and Harrison Streets in Kansas City called the American Eagle Aircraft Corporation, established in 1926 and averaging an airplane per day.
Date: 1905-04-12
Object Type: Book