GEE BEE
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Granville Brothers Aircraft Corporation constructed a number of biplanes during the late 1920s. But their signature design was the squat, round Gee Bee monoplane, with which aviator Jimmy Doolittle flew to a world landplane speed record of 296.287 miles an hour in 1932. A family business, Granville Brothers was operated by Zantford, Thomas, Robert, Mark, and Edward Granville. Financed by the Tait family (which included female aviator Maude Tait Moriarty), Granville Brothers built their famous Gee Bee monoplanes at the old Springfield Airport on Liberty Street (now Springfield Plaza).