Sky King was a 1940s and 1950s American radio and television adventure series about an Arizona rancher and airplane pilot named Schuyler King. Although it was considered to be a Western, King always captured the bad guys as well as finding lost hikers using his airplane. The plane he flew was called the Songbird and the ranch he lived on the Flying Crown. The radio show, which was the brainchild of Robert Morris Burtt and Wilfred Gibbs Moore, (who also created Captain Midnight), first aired in 1946. Several actors played the part of Sky, including Earl Nightingale. The radio show ran until 1954, being aired at the same time as the television version.

The television version starred Kirby Grant as Sky King and Gloria Winters as his teenager niece Penny. Other regular characters included his nephew Clipper, played by Ron Hagerthy, and Mitch the sheriff, played by Ewing Mitchell. Mitch was always coming to Sky for help.

At the beginning of the television series, Sky flew a Cessna T-50 twin-engine "Bamboo Bomber," that was actually owned by Grant, who in real life was a pilot. The plane was made of wood and eventually became unsafe to fly. The plane was sold and later in the series he flew a twin-engine Cessna 310B.

The show was filmed in black-and-white during three periods as sponsors changed: 1951-52, 1955-56 and 1957-62. It continued in syndication for years afterward. There were 72 episodes, there is a myth that 136 actually existed, but 72 was all there were. -Kurt Voggamore