{"id":1405,"date":"2022-01-10T11:47:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T18:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/?page_id=1405"},"modified":"2025-01-07T08:21:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T15:21:20","slug":"civilian-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/?page_id=1405","title":{"rendered":"Civilian Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column]<div class=\"porto-u-heading  wpb_custom_95aa9a11c17ad45cfabaf210d84ee7cc porto-u-55ca8359258f9a412be7e73af65d2aac \"><div class=\"porto-u-main-heading\"><h2  >Civilian Aircraft<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"porto-u-sub-heading\" style=\"\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Although not always as visible as the great warbirds, civilian planes served a diverse and invaluable array of services to the history of flight, from transportion of goods and passengers, to serving as promoters of education and entertainment for different generations. The museum\u2019s civilian aircraft collection represents a cross-section of all of these purposes and more.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><style>.porto-u-55ca8359258f9a412be7e73af65d2aac.porto-u-heading{text-align:center}<\/style><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator border_width=&#8221;5&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong>Cessna 140A \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Cessna Aircraft Company begin producing the C120 and C140 model aircraft for civilian owners after World War II. In 1954, two El Paso pilots, Ruth Deerman and Ruby Hayes used a 1950 Cessna 140A to enter and win the cross-country Powder Puff Derby race from Long Beach, CA to Knoxville, TX, a distance of 1,986 miles.<\/p>\n<p>In 1994, the women donated the historic aircraft, \u201cCotton Clipper Cutie\u201d to the museum. During the actual race, the aircraft was polished aluminum.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1409&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1412&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;]<div class=\"porto-u-heading  wpb_custom_95aa9a11c17ad45cfabaf210d84ee7cc porto-u-55ca8359258f9a412be7e73af65d2aac \"><div class=\"porto-u-main-heading\"><h2  >Featured Civilian Aircraft<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"porto-u-sub-heading\" style=\"\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_9913.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cessna 140A<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Globe-Swift-GC-1B.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Globe Swift GC-1B<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Piper-J-3-Cub.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Piper J-3 Cub<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Piper-PA-18-Super-Cub.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Piper PA-18 Super Cub<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/WACO-EGC-8.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WACO EGC-8<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div><style>.porto-u-55ca8359258f9a412be7e73af65d2aac.porto-u-heading{text-align:center}<\/style><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator border_width=&#8221;5&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]Cessna 140A \u2013\u00a0Cessna Aircraft Company begin producing the C120 and C140 model aircraft for civilian owners after World War II. In 1954, two El Paso pilots, Ruth Deerman and Ruby Hayes used a 1950 Cessna 140A to enter and win the cross-country Powder Puff Derby race from Long Beach, CA to Knoxville, TX, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":861,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1405","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3594,"href":"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1405\/revisions\/3594"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}