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Army Mechanics and TD-14 Tractor

Date: 1941
Description: Military mechanics and TD-14 crawler tractor with a Hughes-Keenan Crane servicing a B-17 bomber in MacDill Field hanger. MacDill Field, now MacDill Army Ai...
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Moving Airplane Engine with I-30 Tractor

Date: 08 24 1937
Description: Slightly elevated view of a worker moving an airplane engine with an International I-30 industrial tractor and trailer inside the Municipal Airport hangar....
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Milwaukee County Airport

Date: 1928
Description: A Hamilton Metalplane, which was manufactured by the Hamilton Aero Manufacturing Co. of Milwaukee, at the Milwaukee County Airport.
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Glenn Curtiss Airplane at Atlantic City

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of crowd gathered on the beach at Atlantic City to watch a Curtiss airplane being pushed on an inclined ramp leading to the boardwalk.
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Brookins and Wright Airplane

Date: 07 1910
Description: Walter Brookins, a boyhood friend of the Wright Brothers, flying a Wright airplane over the ocean at Atlantic City. Brookins set numerous records for altit...
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Naval Air Station

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Description: A view of the exterior of Hangar No. One of the Naval Air Station. A flag stands atop the steel structure, and through the open section, an airship can be...
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Camp Vail

Date: 1918
Description: A view of men posing around a bomber, manufactured by Handley Page Limited, a company founded in 1909. Behind the bomber stand the military buildings of C...
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Kelly Field at Camp Travis

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Description: A view of a plane marked with the number 2900 taking off from Kelly Field, created in 1916. A water tower and the military buidings of Camp Travis are see...
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Group of People with Airplane

Date: 1918
Description: Group of men and women standing around an airplane parked near three buildings in a field.
Postcard

Lawson M.T.2 with Propeller Engaged

Date: 1918
Description: Lawson Military Tractor 2 (MT2) with the propeller engaged. A man is walking near the airplane's left wing, and the propeller and man are blurred. Location...
Postcard

Lawson M.T.2 — Taken in Flight by Jno Carisi

Date: 1917
Description: Photographic postcard of a view under the wing of a Lawson Military Tractor 2 (MT2) in flight. Below is a field and beyond are buildings and a body of wate...
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American Eagle Model A-129

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Description: Left side view of an American Eagle Model A-129, a three-seat open-cockpit sports/utility biplane, sitting on a runway. A man is sitting in the rear cockpi...
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Fairchild Model 71

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Description: Three-quarter front view from left of a Fairchild Model 71 sitting on a runway. The tail identifier reads: "390."
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Fokker Super Universal

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Description: Three-quarter view of front right side of a Fokker Super Universal seaplane floating in the water near a dock. Powered with Pratt & Whitney 410 hp Wasp mot...
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Fokker Super Universal

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Description: Three-quarter view from front left of a Fokker Super Universal sitting on a runway. The tail identifier reads: "NC 4453." Printed on the side of the airpla...
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Fokker Amphibian Model F-11

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Description: Three-quarter view from front left of a Fokker Amphibian model F-11 sitting on a runway.
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OX-5 Swallow

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Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a OX-5 Swallow sitting on a runway. The tail identifier reads: "4250." This airplane was powered by a Curtiss OX-5 eig...
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At the Airport

Date: 01 2014
Description: The Corben Super-Ace airplane is hanging in the glass atrium of the Dane County Airport, where it has been displayed since 1991. Behind the airplane are la...
Postcard

King's Gateway Airport

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Description: View towards a small airport with seating under umbrella's on a patio. A small plane is parked on the tarmac in the right foreground. Caption reads: "King'...
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Pilot with Seaplane

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Description: A man, perhaps the pilot, is standing in front of a seaplane. The plane is sitting in an open-sided building, with a view of water in the background.

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