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The Cessna Aircraft Company is an airplane manufacturing corporation headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, USA. Their main products are general aviation aircraft. Although they are the most well known for their small, piston-powered aircraft, they also produce business jets. The company is a subsidiary of the U.S. conglomerate Textron.
The company traces its history to June 1911, when Clyde Cessna, a farmer in Rago, Kansas, built a wood-and-fabric plane and became the first person to build and fly an aircraft between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. Cessna started his 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.
Cessna Aircraft was formed in 1927 when Clyde Cessna and Victor Roos became partners in the Cessna-Roos Aircraft Company. Roos resigned just one month into the partnership selling back his interest to Cessna. In the same year, the Secretary of State approved a name change to Cessna Aircraft Company. The Cessna DC-6 earned certification on October 29, 1929, sharing this day in history with the stock market crash of 1929.
Flight, oh captain please remember my name for the clouds
Safe, with wings of wax, I trust in the sun over me
Fast, I'm so elated, days I have saved on these wings,
Choice, the chair I'm strapped to, falling my way into God
God knows that I cannot fly
Streaming through conscience and I God knows that I cannot fly
Fuel, and simple thoughts, I've tried to forget in the sky
Choice, the chair I'm strapped to falling my way into God
I'm going down
I'm going down