An excerpt from the Wichita Eagle Monday , January 21, 1985
Wichita just went airplane crazy in the late 1920s.
From Knoll Family Collection and the Kanasas Aviation Museum
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Wings over Kansas
That same sort of excitement continued at smaller companies through the later years.
Clyde Belden, who worked for several companies, remembers when the Knoll Airplane Co.
, in business from 1928 to 1929, finished its first plane. "When we finished the Knoll,
" Belden said, "they shut the factory down and we all went out there (to the airport) and
rode around in it."
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Kansas Aviation Museum
KN-1 Serial number 100 DofC X9090 Sold in Mexico
KN-1 Serial number 101 DofC None Burned in ground accident
KN-1 Serial number 102 DofC X8861 Sat derelict in Wichita
KN-2 Serial number 103 DofC X8899 Engine failure in Mexico
KN-3 Serial number 204 DofC X9950 Washed out 06/27/1929
Knoll KN-1 X9090
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KN-1 page
Knoll KN-3 X9950
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KN-3 page
Knoll-Brayton Sachem Amphibian
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Sachem page