CESSNA Aircraft...
Get your people up to speed… Formerly CESSNA -Roos Aircraft Company Industry Aerospace Founders Clyde CESSNA & Victor Roos Products General Aviation Aircraft & Business Jets Parent Textron Aviation Subsidiaries McCauley Propeller Systems Defunct March 2014 1911 Clyde CESSNA , a farmer in Rago, Kansas, built his own aircraft and flew it in June 1911. He was the first person to do so between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. CESSNA started his wood-and-fabric aircraft ventures in Enid, Oklahoma, testing many of his early planes on the salt flats. When bankers in Enid refused to lend him more money to build his planes, he moved to Wichita. 1927 CESSNA Aircraft was formed...