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…Depression.
By 1929, the year Wichita became the top producer of aircraft in the United States, the Lear brothers (no relation to Bill Lear, who founded Learjet in 1962), had set up their Lear Aircraft Co. at 263 N. Broadway in Wichita, before moving their headquarters to Pratt, Kansas. The company, with Arch as president and Claude as chief engineer…
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