In 1942 Beech won its first Army-Navy ‘ E ’ Award production award and became one of the elite five percent of war contracting firms in the country to win five straight awards for production efficiency, mostly for the production of the Beechcraft 18 which remains in widespread use worldwide.

By 1875, Beech Hill had become part of the Bradfield rural sanitary district which, in 1894, became the Bradfield Rural District.

On October 15, 1948, Beech Grove received the honor of a visit by a sitting President of the United States.

The 1891 Victorian home located at 748 Beech Street is listed on the National Registry of Historic Places and was once visited by President Grover Cleveland.

* 26 February 2004 – a Beech 200 carrying Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski crashed, killing Trajkovski and eight other passengers.

He was also known for flying a Navion, a smaller single-engined airplane, a Lockheed Jetstar, and in later years a Beech Baron and a Beech Duke, registration number N1M.

The Mentor was the brainchild of Walter Beech and was the last airplane he designed.

Beech liked McPhetridge and offered her a job as a sales representative in San Francisco, California which she accepted.

After the usual Honorable Sirs, it went on to say that there had been set off to the widow one full third part of the real estate of the deceased Salu Norberg, one lower room, on the Western side, privileges to the well and bake-oven and to one third of the cellar ( I can show you the cellar when we go up ), also one Cow Right, and lastly they set off to the widow her own land that she brought with her as dower, namely the Beech Pasture.

On alleged " star treatment " during Game 6 by the refs toward certain players, Beech claimed, " there does seem to be issues with different standards and allowances for different players.

At an elevation of 5, 506 feet ( 1, 678 m ) above sea level, Beech Mountain ( also shared with Watauga county ) is the highest incorporated community east of the Mississippi River.

It intersects County Route 608 ( Carmel Road ) and County Route 698 ( Beech Street ), County Route 667 ( Sharp Street ), and County Route 610 ( Brandriff Avenue ) before meeting County Route 555 ( Cedar Street ), which it forms a concurrency with.

Most of the instructors were recent single-engine graduates with less than six months of flight experience, When the Curtiss AT-9, Beech AT-10 Wichita, and Cessna AT-17 arrived, the instructors had to be thoroughly checked out in these twin-engine trainers before they could instruct the students.

Beech Grove grew with two annexations after World War II, with the final one ( 1967 ) taking place just before the Uni-Gov legislation which merged Indianapolis with most of the rest of Marion County, preventing future annexation.

Lloyd Stearman and Walter Beech were both employees of the Swallow Company, but in January 1925 they left Swallow and teamed up with Clyde Cessna to form Travel Air.

Travel Air, with Walter Beech at the helm, grew to over 600 employees and operated from a huge factory complex constructed a few miles outside the city from 1927 to 1929.

In March 1932, Beech quit the Curtis Wright Corporation to form Beech Aircraft, along with his wife Olive Ann, and hired Ted Wells as his chief engineer.

The streets running north and south were named, beginning with the section line, Ash, Beech, Cedar, and Dakota.

The final price was $ 2, 500, 000 ( worth about $ 62m in 2007 ) in 50, 000 shares of the capital stock of the Beech Creek Railway Company with a minimum 4 % dividend guaranteed by the New York Central Railroad Company.

The Royal Army Service Corps were stationed in Effingham with Canadian soldiers encamped and headquartered in High Barn, Beech Avenue, close to where Barnes Wallis lived.

Beech wood is an excellent firewood, easily split and burning for many hours with bright but calm flames.

Beech bark with nodules.

European Beech with unusual aerial roots in a wet Scottish Glen.

* 15 July 2008: Produced by the Hillyer Theatre Company at the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham, directed by Jack Fayter, with Richard Loftus as Jamie, Joel Stubbs as Ste, Evelyne Beech as Sandra, Megan Travers as Leah and Steve Roberts as Tony.

File: Beech tree-recovery from heat damage. jpg | Beech bark with callus growth following fire ( heat ) damage

The Lurøygården ( Lurøy Farm ) on Lurøya is a more than 200 year old renaissance garden with old plants, a pool, and a nearly high Copper Beech.

With the political turmoil and the possibility of war caused by Benito Mussolini aligning Italy with Germany, in 1938 Federico Tesio sold Nearco to Martin H. Benson of Beech House Stud in Newmarket, England for £ 60, 000 ( a world-record for a sire in those days ).

The Eastern and Northern Part is heavily timbered also the Timber being mostly Birch Oak Pine Soft Maple with some undergrowth of Blue Beech along the Border of the streams.

Beech trees that were being logged in 1998 in the Tuatapere area were spiked.

The first of the units were returned to service in March 2010 after being overhauled at the company's shops in Beech Grove, Indiana.

Their meetings were often disrupted by members of the more hardline Socialist Party, who accused Rigg and Beech of being " sentimentalists and Christ-lovers ".

Beech bark is extremely thin, meaning that the living cells are close to the surface while the dead outer layer of the tree is so thin that it does not split into ridges but rather sloughs off as powdery fragments.

From chairs to parquetry ( flooring ) and staircases, the European Beech can do almost anything other than heavy structural support, so long as it is not left outdoors.

Generally Myrtle Beech forests only form once a wet sclerophyll forest reaches maturity, taking several hundred years to do so.

Other important Beech planes are the King Air / Super King Air line of twin-engine turboprops, in production since 1964, the Baron, a twin-engine variant of the Bonanza, and the Beechcraft Model 18, originally a business transport and commuter airliner from the late 1930s through the 1960s, which remains in active service as a cargo transport.

In 1950, Olive Ann Beech was installed as president and CEO of the company, after the sudden death of her husband from a heart attack on 29 November of that year.

Initially directed toward the amateur market, Kodak hired Willard Beech Cook from his 28 mm Pathescope of America company to create the new 16 mm Kodascope Library.

The park is accessed from the east via Apollo Bay, from the north via Forrest or Beech Forest, or from the west via Princetown.

Beech Grove was founded by White Southerners from Kentucky and Tennessee.

The city's elevation, measured in feet above sea level, ranges from 766 ( the Beech Creek waterway, where it is crossed by South 9th Avenue ) to 845 ( the northeastern portion of the Amtrak railroad property ).

Beech Grove maintains a distinct address-numbering system from surrounding Indianapolis.

The original roadway connecting Beech Grove to Indianapolis was Churchman Avenue, running northwest from Beech Grove.

Beech Grove from the air ( southeastern part of the City ; Amtrak repair yards visible at left center ).

Many students from Holy Name of Jesus continue their high school studies at Beech Grove High School or the nearby Roncalli High School.

Both moved away from the area while they were still infants ; neither one grew up or lived in Beech Grove.

While the first few " Beechcraft " were built in the vacant Cessna Aircraft plant, which had also closed during the depression, Beech later leased and then bought the Travel Air plant from Curtis Wright and moved his factory to this plant.

However, the aircraft that would propel the small company into a huge corporation was the Model 18 " Twin Beech ", of which thousands were built from 1937 to 1969.

The types of aircraft using the facility range from Cessna 150, to Beech Bonanza, to Grumman Gulfstream IV, to Boeing 737-300.

Land on Beech Street was purchased from the Fair Oaks Land Company and the shed was moved there during the summer of 1916.

He laid out along the main street which was the pre-existing Nine Mile Road, new cross streets named in alphabetical order after plants, beginning from the west: Ash, Beech, Cedar, Daisy, Elm, Fern, Grove, Holly, Ivy, Juniper, Kalmia, Linden, Maple, Oak, Pine, Quince, Rose, and Spruce.

Beech is not native to Ireland ; however, it was widely planted from the 18th century, and can become a problem shading out the native woodland understory.