Browsing: New York Aviation History

Flushing Airport was one of New York City’s early municipal airports and was located only a mile east of present-day…

If the photo map of Glen Curtiss/North Beach Airport appears to be in a familiar place, you’re right. The airport…

The 20-year period between World War I and World War II, commonly referred to as the ‘Golden Age of Aviation’,…

Elise Raymonde Deroche was born in 1882 in Paris, France. Having a fondness for sports as a child and then…

In 1926, 14-year-old Lee Ya-Ching walked onto a movie set where a director, taken by her beauty, offered her the…

Elizabeth “Bessie” Coleman was born on January 26, 1892 in Atlanta, Texas. As one of 13 children born to sharecroppers,…

History was made in 1943 when three pilots from Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, in Bethpage, NY, became the first women…

“The proudest moment of my life was not when I graduated from college, soloed my first airplane, obtained my commercial…