Editing Cessna (section)

===Origins===
[[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, Kansas|Wichita]].<ref name="snap">{{cite news|title=Centennial Snapshot|url=http://www.enidnews.com/news/local_news/centennial-snapshot/article_bc936555-7131-5a3d-a92a-31fb0c2241ce.html|access-date=February 6, 2007|publisher=[[Enid News & Eagle]]|date=January 25, 2007|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
[[File:Cessna DC-6B.jpg|thumb|right|[[Cessna DC-6]], circa 1930s]]

Cessna Aircraft was formed when Clyde Cessna and [[Victor Roos]] became partners in the Cessna-Roos Aircraft Company in 1927. Roos resigned just one month into the partnership, selling back his interest to Cessna.<ref name="single">{{cite magazine|last1=Schlaeger|first1=Gerald J.|date=April 1962|title=Cessna Single-Engine Fleet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W9hDaNOiAXEC|magazine=[[Flying (magazine)|Flying]]|publisher=[[Ziff Davis]]|volume=70|issue=4|page=34|issn=0015-4806|access-date=June 23, 2016|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> Shortly afterward, Roos's name was dropped from the company name.<ref name="CH1927-1939">{{cite web|title=Cessna History 1927–1939|url=http://cessna.com/CessnaHistory/His/History-1927-1939.html|url-status=dead|publisher=Cessna|access-date=May 25, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110227150253/http://cessna.com/CessnaHistory/His/History-1927-1939.html|archive-date=February 27, 2011}}</ref>

The [[Cessna DC-6]] earned certification on the same day as the [[Wall Street Crash of 1929|stock market crash of 1929]], October 29, 1929.<ref name="CH1927-1939"/>

In 1932, the Cessna Aircraft Company closed due to the [[Great Depression]].

However, the [[Cessna CR-3]] custom racer made its first flight in 1933. The plane won the 1933 American Air Race in Chicago and later set a new world speed record for engines smaller than 500 cubic inches by averaging {{convert|237|mph|km/h|0|abbr=on}}.<ref name="CH1927-1939"/>

Cessna's nephews, brothers [[Dwane Wallace|Dwane]] and Dwight Wallace, bought the company from Cessna in 1934. They reopened it and began the process of building it into what would become a global success.<ref name="Phillips">{{cite book|last1=Phillips|first1=Edward H.|title=Wings of Cessna: Model 120 to the Citation III|date=1986|publisher=Flying Books|isbn=0-911139-05-2|edition=1st}}</ref>

[[File:Cessna C-34 G-AEAI Squires Gate 08.01.50 edited-4.jpg|thumb|right|[[Cessna C-34]] at [[Blackpool Airport|Blackpool (Squires Gate) Airport]] in 1950]]
The [[Cessna C-37]] was introduced in 1937 as Cessna's first seaplane when equipped with [[Edo Aircraft Corporation|Edo]] floats.<ref name="CH1927-1939"/> In 1940, Cessna received their largest order to date, when they signed a contract with the U.S. Army for 33 specially equipped [[Cessna T-50]]s, their first twin engine plane. Later in 1940, the [[Royal Canadian Air Force]] placed an order for 180 T-50s.<ref name="CH1940-1949">{{cite web|title=Cessna History 1940–1949|url=http://www.cessna.com/CessnaHistory/His/History-1940-1949.html|url-status=dead|publisher=Cessna|access-date=May 25, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110417202932/http://www.cessna.com/CessnaHistory/His/History-1940-1949.html|archive-date=April 17, 2011}}</ref>