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Kaminski Wreck

Date: 07 04 1914
Description: The wreck of John Kaminski's plane, where he had been scheduled to fly at the Fourth of July festivities.
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Rodgers' Vin Fiz

Date: 1912
Description: Calbraith Perry Rodgers, with a cigar characteristically clenched in his jaw, was the first man to fly across the United States. He undertook this flight i...
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Final Wreck of the Vin Fiz?

Date: 06 12 1913
Description: The second fatal wreck involving the Wright Model B airplane in which Calbreith Perry Rodgers had died a year earlier. This crash killed Andy Drew, friend ...
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Wisconsin's First Aviation Fatality

Date: 09 05 1913
Description: Wisconsin's first air fatality was P.C. Davis, an exhibition pilot from Chicago, who died as a result of injuries sustained during an aerial performance in...
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Airplane Accident

Date: 05 30 1931
Description: Official coroner's view of Travelair biplane crash at Madison Airport with buildings and cars in the background. Lawrence Fishnich, pilot, and two passenge...
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Airplane Crash in Lake Mendota

Date: 07 18 1944
Description: Dozens of boys at Camp Wakanda on the north shore of Lake Mendota watch rescue work on an airplane which has crashed into the lake near shore. Tom Langloi...
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Private Airplane Crash

Date: 02 29 1948
Description: View of small private plane which crashed into a 30-foot open space, narrowly missing the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Vick at 102 Lansing Street and an adjac...
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Private Airplane Crash

Date: 02 29 1948
Description: View of small private plane which crashed into a 30-foot open space narrowly missing the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Vick at 102 Lansing Street and an adjace...
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Airplane Crash

Date: 02 06 1949
Description: A Cessna 140 airplane, which crash landed on Lake Mendota. The pilot, Harold Guehrer, and passenger John Koeppel, both from Milwaukee, were injured.
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Crop Dusting Plane

Date: 06 16 1949
Description: "This crop dusting plane crashed and burned on the Lucy Firk's property on the north end of the village."
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Helicopter Crash

Date: 01 06 1961
Description: Spectators view the scene of a helicopter crash on Highway CV at the north end of Truax Field. The new $20,000 helicopter crashed when the pilot was attemp...
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Group of People in Field with Crashed Airplane

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view across stream in marshy area towards a group of people gathered around an aircraft wreck.
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Wreckage of a Downed Helicopter

Date: 1965
Description: Wreckage of a downed helicopter at an airbase in Vietnam. Several soldiers, other helicopters and tents are in the background.
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Gardner Plane Crash Blamed on Heavy Fog

Date: 06 26 1957
Description: Sauk County Deputy Melvin Albers points out the direction that the light plane took as it crashed through a forest near Baraboo, taking the lives of Louis ...
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Gardner Plane Crash Blamed on Heavy Fog

Date: 06 26 1957
Description: Area residents check the wreckage of the plane near LaRue, about 15 miles west of Baraboo. Mrs. Ed Meyer (standing between the two trees with folded hands)...

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