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Globe Temco Swift History
The Globe Plant Yesterday & Today
photos via Stan Price
Yesterday...
 
Wartime business...
Building Beechcraft AT-10 Multi-Engine Trainers under contract.
Globe plant during WWII. AT-10s can be seen on the flight line.
The first "All-Metal" Swift. NX33336
(As can be seen in the background, Globe paid the bills with some mod/overhaul
work on DC-3s.)
The creator of the Swift, Globe's Chief Engineer Bud Knox, leans on the wing
while Globe's Chief Test Pilot, Ted Yarbrough, sits in the cockpit.
Yarbrough did nearly all the test flying to CAA certify the Swift.
NC33336 certified and posing in front of its birthplace.
The war is long over and the Swifts are flowing down the line.
Little did those workers know how long some of these Swifts would survive...
Another view of the plant. Post WWII and post Globe.
Judging from the circles on the ground this photo could very well
have been taken during the days when Bell Helicopter was there...
On to photos of the Globe Plant as it
exists today...
Links to more Swift
History...
Original
Globe and Temco Factory
Photos
Pictures
of the way it was at the Globe and Temco factories...
The
Globe Plant Yesterday & Today
Globe plant photos courtesy of Texas
Swifter Stan Price...
When The Lights Went Out In Saginaw
Globe and Temco employee Cotton Conder reminisces about his days with
the Swift...
by Phyllis Moses
Temco
History from the files of Cotton
Conder
Some photos and other stuff from
the Swift's family tree...
One
To Remember...
Globe Chief Engineer Bud Knox
meets with Swifters
at what turned out to be a very special 1985 fly-in...
The Globe
GC-1...
Swifter Phil
Howell finds some Swift stuff in a World War II scrapbook...
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