Browsing: New York Aviation History
Long Island may not be the birthplace of aviation but it is certainly the birthplace of international air travel. On…
Jackie Cochran climbed to 45,000 feet in a Canadair F-86 Sabre jet, leaving a contrail of ice crystals behind her…
Holmes Airport existed for about eight years, from 1929 to 1940, and was located in Jackson Heights, approximately a half…
Flushing Airport was one of New York City’s early municipal airports and was located only a mile east of present-day…
If the photo map of Glen Curtiss/North Beach Airport appears to be in a familiar place, you’re right. The airport…
The 20-year period between World War I and World War II, commonly referred to as the ‘Golden Age of Aviation’,…
Elise Raymonde Deroche was born in 1882 in Paris, France. Having a fondness for sports as a child and then…
In 1926, 14-year-old Lee Ya-Ching walked onto a movie set where a director, taken by her beauty, offered her the…
Elizabeth “Bessie” Coleman was born on January 26, 1892 in Atlanta, Texas. As one of 13 children born to sharecroppers,…
History was made in 1943 when three pilots from Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, in Bethpage, NY, became the first women…