Holmes Airport
Holmes Airport existed for about eight years from 1929 to 1940 and was located in Jackson Heights, approximately a half mile southwest of the...
Flushing Airport
Flushing Airport was one of New York City’s early municipal airports and was located only a mile east of present-day LaGuardia Airport.
Opened in 1927...
Glenn Curtiss Airport
If the photo map of Glen Curtiss/North Beach Airport appears to be in a familiar place; you’re right. The airport is on the same...
The Flying Hutchinsons
The 20-year period between World War I and World War II, commonly referred to as the ‘Golden Age of Aviation’, was an exhilarating era...
The Song of the Ninety-Nines
Elise Raymonde Deroche was born in 1882 in Paris, France. Having a fondness for sports as a child and then for motorcycles, automobiles and...
Lee Ya-Ching
In 1926, 14-year-old Lee Ya-Ching walked onto a movie set where a director, taken by her beauty, offered her the opportunity to act in...
Bessie Coleman – Pioneer Aviator
Elizabeth “Bessie” Coleman was born on January 26, 1892 in Atlanta, Texas. As one of 13 children born to sharecroppers, George and Susan Coleman,...
Hellcat Test Pilot: Barbara Kibbee Jayne
History was made in 1943 when three pilots from Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, in Bethpage, NY, became the first women in the United States...
Lt. Col. Marjorie M. Gray
“The proudest moment of my life was not when I graduated from college, soloed my first airplane, obtained my commercial rating, received the Air...