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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....
Photograph

Mitchell Airport

Date: 06 18 1955
Description: Control tower and entrance to the new Howell Street passenger terminal at General Mitchell Field shortly before its formal opening in July 1955. The Milwau...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

Airplane Accident

Date: 05 30 1931
Description: Official coroner's view of Travelair biplane crash at Madison Airport with buildings and cars in the background. Lawrence Fishnich, pilot, and two passenge...
Photograph

Ringling Brothers Circus at Madison Airport

Date: 08 12 1930
Description: Elevated view of the Ringling Brothers Circus at Madison airport from the top of a hangar located on Coolidge between North and Kedzie.
Photograph

B-29 Bomber Landing

Date: 03 1945
Description: A B-29 bomber plane landing at North Field in Guam after its first fire raid on Tokyo. A tree is in the center foreground with three men sitting around it ...
Map or Atlas

Waukesha County

Date: 02 1956
Description: This 1956 map of Waukesha County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, roads, railroads, dams, airports, par...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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."
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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'...
Photograph

Front End of Bob Bender's Cab

Date: 1977
Description: Front end view of Bob Bender's flagship cab named "Nellie," a shiny black 1956 Cadillac Fleetwood, at the Dane County Regional Airport. The straight on ang...
Photograph

Back End of Bob Bender's Cab

Date: 1977
Description: Back end view of Bob Bender's flagship cab named "Nellie," a shiny black 1956 Cadillac Fleetwood, parked at the Dane County Regional Airport. The metal emb...
Photograph

Bender Deluxe Cab Limousine Service Crew and Fleet

Date: 1977
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the R.L. Bender Deluxe Cab Limousine Service crew and taxi fleet in front of Dane County Regional Airport. Robert "Bob" Bender (t...

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