Browsing: New York Aviation History

Aircraft Inspection 1927 Engineering Dept Hangar

The journey of Mitchel Field was similar to most of the closed as well as the currently operating airports on…

Holmes Airport existed for about eight years, from 1929 to 1940, and was located in Jackson Heights, approximately a half…

North Beach Airport NY Seaplane

If the photo map of Glen Curtiss/North Beach Airport appears to be in a familiar place, you’re right. The airport…

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…