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The Wichita Public Schools (USD 259) are governed by a non-partisan elected school board, the USD 259 Board of Education (BoE), which has seven members. Six members are nominated by voters in six geographically defined board districts throughout the overall school district. There is one nominee from each district.
The four elementary schools and two middle schools Wichita’s school board voted March 4 to close will be shuttered at the end of the current school year, affecting 2,213 students and 322 employees.
In 1932, Walter H. Beech, formerly head of the aircraft manufacturer Travel Air, left Curtiss-Wright, which had purchased Travel Air in 1929, to set up a new company, Beech Aircraft Corporation, based in Wichita, Kansas. Beech took the airplane designer Ted A. Wells from Curtiss-Wright, and the first project of the new company was the Model 17 ...
Beechcraft is an American brand of civil aviation and military aircraft owned by Textron Aviation since 2014, [1] headquartered in Wichita, Kansas.Originally, it was a brand of Beech Aircraft Corporation, an American manufacturer of general aviation, commercial, and military aircraft, ranging from light single-engined aircraft to twin-engined turboprop transports, business jets, and military ...
Suzanne Perez. August 15, 2024 at 4:16 AM. Wichita Public Schools/Screenshot. The Wichita school district is launching an experimental microschool in hopes of luring back some families that have ...
Although there’s enough building capacity to support 63,000 students in Wichita schools, enrollment has declined by 8.4% since 2016 to about 47,000 students. The district has $1.2 billion in ...
1942. Primary user. United States Army Air Forces. Produced. 1942–1944. Number built. 2,371. The Beechcraft AT-10 Wichita is an American World War II trainer built for the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) by Beechcraft. It was used to train pilots for multi-engined aircraft such as bombers.
Spouse. Walter Herschel Beech. Awards. Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy (1980) National Aviation Hall of Fame (1981) Olive Ann Beech (September 25, 1903 – July 6, 1993) was an American aerospace businesswoman who was the co-founder, president, and chairwoman of the Beech Aircraft Corporation. She founded the company in 1932 with her husband ...