The Legacy of
Fifty years ago, a chapter in the long and storied history of Beech Aircraft ended when Walter Herschel Beech succumbed to heart failure at the age of 59. The Tennessee farm boy who had risen to become the president and chairman of one of the big three general aviation airplane manufacturers died...
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