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Daily Archives: December 9, 2019
Santa travels in style, in a vintage D-25
Santa Claus paid a visit to the Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport (SGH) yesterday afternoon, delighting a large crowd (including my family) with his arrival in a beautiful red biplane. (We assume the reindeer are resting up for their long-distance endurance flight … Continue reading
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Tagged aviation, aviation history, D-25, Ivan Gates, MS-646, New Standard Aircraft
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New Collection: Laurence Potter Warner Aviation Scrapbook
The Laurence Potter Warner Aviation Scrapbook (MS-570) contains primarily newspaper clippings concerning the various long-distance flights of the 1920s. The main focus of the scrapbook is the first aerial circumnavigation in 1924. Laurence Potter Warner was the son of early … Continue reading
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Tagged aviation, aviation history, collections, MS-570, new collections
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