Did you know....?

[GAHorn]

Did you know that during the war years, Cessna made many items for the war effort other than airplanes? Like....furniture for the military and gov't.?

Here's a little caricature of Chief Test Pilot Mort Brown, drawn by Cessna artist Ted Bole:

[jjpowell]

how do you know what Cessna furniture is worth and where it came from the dresser i have is marked U.S. Cessna 1949
it has more markings but cant get to it at the moment
thanks for any help

[Blue4]

Can't tell you what a dresser is worth, but a Cessna chair recently was sold on eBay for an amazing $50. Apparently a chair is still a chair.

I'd love to set and ponder the finer points of aviation in one of those chairs. Trouble is, I don't know what any of them are.

Thanks for the history lesson, George.

-Scott

[blueldr]

Somebody told me, many years ago, that a goodly portion of the wooden Beechcraft AT-10 multi engine trainers of WWII were built by a furniture company.
Maybe Cessna was just trying to get even.