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The company traces its history to June 1911, when Clyde Cessna, a farmer in Rago, Kansas, built a wood-and-fabric plane and became the first person to build and fly an aircraft between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains.

Cessna started his 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.