Name/Title
Aircraft, Buroker-Hicks Flying Service at Olympia Airport, 1938-1941Entry/Object ID
2000-002-0010Description
Contact sheet with seven images of aircraft at the Olympia Airport, Buroker-Hicks Flying Service.
A: Cub and Waco aircraft on ramp and Mel Larsen, mechanic.
B: Mel Larson's Monocoupe Aircraft. In the background is the Buroker-Hicks Flying Service Hangar and office.
C: City of Olympia Hangar and Buroker-Hicks Maintenance Shop
D: Buroker-Hicks Flying Service Hangar at Olympia Airport. Stored inside is G. D. Martin's Warrior Fairchild 200 H.P. engine.
E: Cabin flyby
F: Aircraft Parked at Olympia Airport, 1939
G: Cirrus Aircraft, Fairchild Ranger Engine, Olympia AirportMade/Created
Date made
circa 1938 - circa 1941Inscription/Signature/Marks
Type
Associated DocumentTranscription
[page 1] Contact Prints of Aircraft
Buroker -Hicks Flying Service
Olympia Airport 1938-39-40-41
#1 - Aircraft on Ramp Cub & Waco
Mel Larsen mechanic & partner
Sam Schlegels Resturant [sic] & house across Road in background
#2 Mel Larsons Monocoupe foreground
Cubs and B& H Hangar & office
background gas lineman & Dick Hicks
#3 City of Olympia Hangar & B& H
maintanence [sic] shop - note aircraft
stored inside - Cubs stacked
on nose dullys[?] built by H. A. Buroker
which doubled our storage inside
#4 B&H Hangar - storing G. D. Martin's
Warrier [sic] Fairchild 220 H.P.? Hicks chop coupe background
#5 Cab[Cabin?] Fly by no comment
[page 2] #6 Line Parked Aircraft 1939
Hugh Jeffers Waco F-2? QCF?
Olympia Air Transport Curtis Rotzin [?]
B&H Cub and Ray Huberts
Taylorcraft
Olympia Air Transport Owners
incorporated 1934 - Ross Dye
Pilot Manager & mechanic other
stockholders Fred Chitty
W B McDonald - Fred Homes
Paul Loudin - Howard Lincoln
& John Robinson --
2nd Pilot manager Jack Mifflin
Aircraft owned + Curtis Robin
2nd Menasco Fleet and 3rd
Aeronica [Aeronca] C-3 (Flying bathtub)
Ross Dye has names of students he taught from his logbook
#7 Fairchild Ranger? Cirros [Cirrus]Language
EnglishMaterial/Technique
Pen
