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| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Richard M. Nixon welcomed by Barbara Bird, Honey Queen, and Wisconsin Governor Vernon W. Thomson with cheese package at the Oshkosh Airport. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Charles Lindbergh's airplane, "Spirit of St. Louis," while visiting Madison. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | The landing of the "Spirit of St. Louis," carrying Charles Lindbergh. |
| Date: | 08 22 1927 |
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| Description: | Charles Lindbergh landing the Spirit of St. Louis, a Ryan NYP at Pennco Field (Royal Airport). This stop was one of only two appearances made in Wis... |
| Date: | 06 1963 |
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| Description: | Children, adults, and a Northwest Airlines Boeing 707 jetliner on the tarmac at General Mitchell International Airport. The children, all first graders fro... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Hangars of the Curtiss Aviation School and the San Diego Aero Club on North Island in San Diego Harbor. Glenn Curtiss himself is thought to be the individu... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Hangar of the Ohio aviation school of Dr. Rudolph Silverston, formerly of Milwaukee, together with three planes: two Curtiss pushers and a Bleriot monoplan... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The first Sheboygan Airport operated by Anton Brotz, Sr. Parked in front of the hangar is a Curtiss "Jenny," as the World War I-era Curtiss JN models were ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The second Sheboygan airport was built by owner Anton Brotz, Sr. after a fire destroyed his first hangar. Brotz is photographed here with his son, Anton, J... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | The groundbreaking ceremony for the new airport hangar at Wausau. Governor Fred R. Zimmerman, who can be seen on the right, (elevated above the crowd and w... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Herman "Fish" Salmon and his airplane, the "Cosmic Wind," at the 1947 National Air Races. This image is from the collection of Harry Bruno, the publicist f... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | 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 mo... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | 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... |
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| Description: | The real flying nun, Sister Mary Aquinas Kinskey, arriving at Sheboygan County Airport with two Franciscan sisters in a Cherokee C airplane. Sister Mary Aq... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Shawano Municipal Airport and airport managers Jack and Dorothy Wussow. In 1954 the Wussows gave up cold weather flying to become managers of an airport i... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Family portrait, probably taken at Alexander Field in Wausau. Included are an unidentified aviator, his wife, his baby, and a Waco 10 aircraft. Goggles, wh... |
| Date: | 07 15 1997 |
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| Description: | Northwest Airlines celebrated the 50th anniversary of its around-the-globe service to the Orient at Minneapolis Airport in 1997. For this event the airlin... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | A Hamilton Metalplane, which was manufactured by the Hamilton Aero Manufacturing Co. of Milwaukee, at the Milwaukee County Airport. |
| Date: | 08 18 1935 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the air show held to mark the dedication of the airport in Waukesha, an event sponsored by the Waukesha Aviation Club. Present to dedica... |
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