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Larson Brothers' Airport
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Roy Larson of Larsen, Wisconsin in his first plane, a Canadian-built Curtiss (Canuck) purchased in 1922. Shortly after making this purchase, Roy and his brothers, Leonard, Newell, and Clarence, established Wisconsin's most famous rural airport on their family farm.
1922
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Larson Brothers' Airport
1923
The hangar and three airplanes (a Canuck and a J-1 Standard) at the airport operated by the Larson Brothers of Larsen, Wisconsin. The field was both the most famous and longest-lived rural airport ...
Larson Brothers' Airport
1923
The entrance to the Larson Brothers' flying field at Larsen in Winnebago County, about one year after the brothers laid out the runway. The field remained in use until 1990, making it the longest-...
Larsons' Barnstormer's Contract
August 17, 1923
"No flight, no pay." The informal contract between J.A. Smith of Neenah and Roy Larson of Larsen, Wisconsin. Roy Larson established a rural airport in Larsen in 1922 with two airplanes. To make a...
Rebuilt Canuck
August 31, 1928
Horace Hill, Pete Brandenberg, and unidentified children at the Beloit Airport with a Canuck airplane rebuilt by Allen Loveland. Surplus Canucks, as the Curtiss planes built in Canada during World ...
Mitchell at Milwaukee
1922
General William Mitchell, with his personal airplane and Milwaukee airport manager Giles Meisenheimer at Butler Field, the first Milwaukee County airport. During the 1920s Billy Mitchell made numer...
