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Lost Airplane Canopy
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Police Officer Robert Ferris stands near a canopy that ripped loose from a Truax Field jet fighter and landed in the Rentschler Floral Company plat a block from Madison West High School.
March 8, 1954
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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Men Boarding Airplane
September 27, 1954
A group of men pose in front of Capital Airlines airplane at Madison Municipal Airport - Truax Field.
Dead Seagulls at Truax Field
October 22, 1946
Bert F. Crary, an employee at Truax Municipal Airport, holding three seagulls killed by an airplane as it landed at the airport.
Teens at Truax
October 1, 1954
Woman and two teenagers stand outside the Madison Municipal Airport - Truax Field terminal.
Flight Training at Truax Field
1944
Instructor on the wing of a biplane talking with an airman trainee in the cockpit of a plane during flight training at Truax Field during World War II.
Truax Field Commander Returns from Korea
September 6, 1953
Colonel Collins H. Ferris stands beside his wife as he is greeted at the Madison airport upon returning from Japan. He was the commander at Truax Field from January to August, 1951 and acted as the...
