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Timmerman Field
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Advertising brochure for Timmerman Field, the successor to Curtiss-Wright Airport. Curtiss-Wright Airport, which had been established in 1929, was purchased by Milwaukee County in 1948. In 1951 the field reopened under lease from Gran-Air, Inc. Gran-Air offered flying instructions, charter flights, air taxi service, and it sold Cessna airplanes.
1957
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National Air Races
1930
Advertisement for International trucks featuring the National Air Races held at Curtiss-Reynolds Airport in Chicago, Illinois. Includes color illustrations of airplanes and an International ground ...
Cicero Field Flight Instructors
1912
Cicero Field flight instructors Edward Finan (left) and DeLloyd Thompson seated in a Wright Model B airplane at the Chicago International Air Show. The plane is outfitted with dual controls for tea...
Middleton Airport and Morey Airplane Co.
Howard Morey (left) was associated with most of the airports in Madison. Prior to World War II he managed Madison Municipal Airport and when the military took over that field, Morey moved his opera...
Sheboygan Airport and Flying Nun
The real flying nun, Sister Mary Aquinas Kinskey, arriving at Sheboygan County Airport with two Franciscan sisters in a Cherokee C airplane. Sister Mary Aquinas, whose mother house was in Manitowoc...
Shawano Airport
1951
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 in Louisiana.
Curtiss-Wright Field
March 17, 1931
A scene at Curtiss-Wright Field in Milwaukee. Pictured are Arthur D. Gaspar, a Waukesha funeral director, and Paul Trier, the pilot of the Curtiss Thrush. The two men worked with the airport manage...
