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| Date: | 05 1949 |
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| Description: | Airport worker using a McCormick Farmall Cub tractor equipped with towing bar and special towing bracket to tow a small twin-engine airplane at the Elmhurs... |
| 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: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Workmen overhauling the engine of a Wisconsin Central airplane in the airline hangar at Truax Field. Formerly known as Madison Municipal Airport, the field... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A Beechcraft 18 in the former Air Force hangar at Truax Field. This photograph was taken shortly after Wisconsin Central Airlines moved its headquarters fr... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin Central Airlines pilot walking toward a twin-engine Lockheed 10A airplane parked on the runway at Truax Field. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | The ceremony marking the first Wisconsin Central Airlines flight at Madison. Margaret "Mickey" Morey, the wife of Howard Morey, is about to cut the ribbon.... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | A C-47 bomber returns to North Airfield, Guam. This airfield had been operational only since early February. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee p... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | The reason for the official name for the Berlin Airlift, "Operation Skytrain," is suggested by this photograph of C-47 transport airplanes unloading at Tem... |
| Date: | 04 10 1943 |
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| Description: | Truax Army Air Field Fire Station #1 with 5 fire fighter crash crew members and their truck. |
| Date: | 04 10 1943 |
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| Description: | Truax Army Air Field Fire Station #1, with fire fighters and their trucks. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | View towards men in an International KB-2 truck, with a special coach type panel body owned by United Air Lines, parked in front of a United passenger airp... |
| Date: | 09 09 1940 |
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| Description: | Man and woman with two suitcases boarding a Northwest airplane. "Hundred to One" It's for You" Manchesters Fall merchandise sale. Advertisement says "Now t... |
| Date: | 08 03 1946 |
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| Description: | Lieutenant General Eaker at the Madison airport in front of a B-17 bomber. He is shown with State Representative K. Henry (R-Jefferson) and welcoming commi... |
| Date: | 10 1946 |
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| Description: | A flock of gulls flying over a runway at Truax Field, menacing aircraft and raising concerns for safety. |
| Date: | 01 23 1947 |
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| Description: | Area teachers attending an aviation education program boarding a Northwest Airlines DC-3 plane at Truax Field along with some members of the flight crew. |
| Date: | 01 30 1947 |
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| Description: | Three men working at the Civil Aeronautics Administration interstate communication station at Truax Field. From left to right are: Guy J. Blakely checking... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | The "Harold F. McCormick", an International Harvester corporate airplane. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | The "Harold F. McCormick", International Harvester's corporate airplane. |
| Date: | 06 23 1947 |
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| Description: | Rt. Rev. Msgr. E.C. O'Reilly, retired pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Baraboo, is shown boarding an airliner at Madison Municipal Airport. On the ... |
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