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Text from an advertisement in September 1944 issue of Flying: Most versatile of all non-tactical aircraft in the US armed serves, the Model 18 Beechcraft twin-engine all-metal monoplane has been produced for the U S and allied governments in five distinct special-purpose types, ranging from high-altitude photographic to bombing and navigation trainers, and command personnel and utility transports. Fifteen variations of these types have been built for specialized uses. The USAAF AT-7 Beechcraft navigation trainer, for example, has been produced in large quantities as a landplane and has also been factory-built as a seaplane or skiplane, using streamlined Edo floats or Noorduyn skis. Quickly convertible from a landplane to a seaplane or skiplane, this type has fulfilled exacting special duties in Alaska, USA and the far North, and elsewhere. Precedents for these uses were established years before the war, when the commercial Model 18 Beechcraft won great favor with Canadian airlines and other users who required fast, all-season transportation above the trackless bush country to mining and fur-trading outposts sometimes well north of the Arctic circle. Landings were made on tree-fringed lakes, and on the open waters of Hudson's Bay, Canada, and the Arctic Ocean. Its commercial users were exacting in their requirements; its military users are even more exacting. Beechcrafts are doing their part, in war as in peace, in all parts of the world, in every climate, and under all conceivable conditions of flight. BeechCRAFTS ARE DOING THEIR PART BEECH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION WITCHITA, KANSAS, USA