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Aviation's earliest years in Jacksonville, 1878-1935Entry/Object ID
Library.1249Description
x, 94 pages. : illustrations, photographs ; 28 cm.
Aviation's earliest years in Jacksonville, 1878-1935 by John Ingle.
Paperback cover is autographed by author.
Includes indexes, appendices, and bibliography.
It covers the earliest, most nostalgic, 57 years of aviation in the Jacksonville area (1878-1935), extending from the balloon era to the all-metal Douglas DC-2 airliners. It touches on barnstormers, private flying, military aviation, airmail, and the growth of commercial airlines. Four hundred pioneer aviation figures, mostly local, are named and many are pictured.--Publisher info
"Few people remember that the site of Prudential Insurance Company's Home Office Building and parking lot was once an ostrich and alligator farm (1920-30) and then an airport (1930-31)." John Ingle
"Lindbergh brought his "Spirit of St. Louis" here, and Lt. Cmdr. A.C. Read brought the Navy's first (1919) trans-Atlantic flying boat NC-4 here. And among commercial airlines, Florida Airways was among the nation's first to commence flying airmail right here in 1926, using picturesque open-cockpit biplanes out of Paxon Field where the high school now stands." -- Laurie YongeCollection
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Pitcairn Aviation, Inc., Varney Air Transport, Inc., Eastern Air Lines., National Airlines., Wedell-Williams Air Service Corporation., Florida Airways Corporation., Aeronautics -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- History.Publication Details
Author
Ingle, John P.Publisher
Jacksonville Historical SocietyPlace Published
* Untyped Place Published
Jacksonville, FLCall No.
TL 522 .F6 I53 1977LCCN
77087985