More than eight decades ago, a small aircraft company started a Textron Service Center in Wichita, Kan., to do what others said could not be done to build a monoplane that used a wing without supporting struts or braces. When the Cessna All Purpose took off August 13, 1927, the aviation world was forever changed. In fact, Clyde Cessna’s cantilever design has been the standard ever since.
