Photograph
Larson Brothers' Airport
| Roy Larson of Larsen, Wisconsin in his first plane, a Canadian-built Curtiss (Canuck) purchased in 1922. Shortly after making this purchase, Roy and his brothers, Leonard, Newell, and Clarence, established Wisconsin's most famous rural airport on their family farm. |
| Image ID: | 10992 |
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| Creation Date: | 1922 |
| Creator Name: | Unknown |
| City: | Superior |
| County: | Douglas |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Larson Brothers Airport, Larson, Wisconsin, records, 1922-1929, 1965 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | PH 3786 |
| Original Dimensions: | 7.5 x 4.5 inches |
| Roy died in a crash in 1929, but Leonard Larson continued to operate the field until 1990. When the airport was put on the National Register of Historic Places, Leonard Larson was interviewed by the Oshkosh Northwestern" Everybody was operating their planes out of farm field back then. When we were barnstorming, we would land everywhere we could. Sometimes it would take weeks for us to line up a place....Planes have become much more expensive and a bigger responsibility than they used to be....They have become expensive toys which is not what they were in my day. Now, planes are for rich people and people who think they are rich, but it wasn't always that way." A Canuck is a Curtis JN-4 "Jenny" trainer, with a water cooled OX-5 engine built in Canada. After WW I, they were sold, unassembled, at affordable prices and were used by many barnstormers because they were slow yet maneuverable. By 1928 they were also considered unsafe, and officially grounded by the CAA. |
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| Air pilots |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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