WWII Aviation Cessna Aircrafter 1942 Yearbook SIGNED 200 Employees Wichita Rare

by Mitchell Zurawinski [editor]

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First edition · Signed

.no-subscribe { display: none} [contenteditable] { pointer-events: none; } AIRCRAFTER 1942 Published by the Cessna Employees' Club Mitchell Zurawinski; Don Wiley Published by Cessna Employees' Club, Wichita, Kansas, 1942. Very good hardcover in faux leather with embossed Cessna logo on front board. Some cover wear with rubbing wear to spine extremes and edges. 4to, illustrated, unpaginated, numerous aviation ads at end. Signed by nearly 200 Cessna employees. This example stands alone for what transforms it from mere documentation into living testimony: the signatures of nearly 200 Cessna workers inscribed across its pages. These aren't collector's afterthoughts or dealer enhancements—they're the autographs of the men and women who built America's air power, penned at the moment when Wichita's production lines ran around the clock and the fate of nations hung on rivets and welds. The book itself, edited by Mitchell Zurawinski with technical guidance from Don Wiley, captures the Cessna Aircraft Company at its wartime crescendo, when employment had surged from 200 in 1940 to over 6,000 by 1942, transforming the quiet prairie city into the aviation capital of the world. Each signature here represents a face in the photographs that fill these pages—assembly workers who built AT-17 Bobcats and UC-78 transports, engineers who solved production bottlenecks, machinists whose hands shaped aluminum into airframes. The Cessna Employees' Club, which had leased the gymnasium and ballroom o

• Publisher: Cessna Employees' Club
• Year: 1942
• Condition: Very Good

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