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Cessna Model A

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Description: Three-quarter right side view from front of a Cessna Model A aircraft sitting on a runway. The tail identifier reads: "1627."
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Lawson Plant Exterior

Date: 1919
Description: Exterior view from field across pond towards Alfred Lawson's aircraft plant, with buildings and smokestacks. Men are working with a pile of lumber on the l...
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Kreider-Reisner C-4 Challenger with Comet Engine

Date: 07 22 1929
Description: Left side profile view of a 7-cylinder Comet air-cooled radial piston engine and propeller on a Kreider-Reisner C-4 Challenger aircraft. A design of the Co...
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Lawson Drafting Tables

Date: 1919
Description: Elevated view of drafting tables for aircraft design, presumably inside the Lawson plant. There are several stools, desks and tables set up in the corner o...
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Thaden T-2 Aircraft with Comet 7-D Engine

Date: 07 22 1929
Description: Right side profile view of the front of a Comet 7-D air-cooled radial piston engine and wooden propeller on a Thaden T-2 aircraft. A design of the Comet En...
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Thaden T-2 Aircraft with Comet 7-D Engine

Date: 07 22 1929
Description: Three-quarter view from front left of a Thaden T-2 parked outdoors. Manufactured by the Thaden Metal Aircraft Company of San Francisco, California. The com...
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Sierra BLW-2 Aircraft with Comet 7-RA Engine

Date: 07 22 1929
Description: View towards the front of a Sierra BLW-2 aircraft, fitted with a Comet 7-RA air-cooled radial piston engine and a wooden Westinghouse Micarta propeller. Mo...
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Fairchild Model 71

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Description: Right side view of a Fairchild Model 71 sitting on a runway. The tail identifier reads: "NC 9708."
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Fairchild Model 61

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Description: Three-quarter front right view of a Fairchild Model 61 (built with Wasp engine) sitting on a runway. The left wing is folded back against the tail, a featu...
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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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Hamilton H-47

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Description: Right side view of a Hamilton Metalplane H-47 parked near a large building. The airplane is equipped with a 525 hp Pratt & Whitney Hornet engine. The tail ...
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Hamilton Metalplane H-47

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Description: Three-quarter from left rear of the tail end of a Hamilton Metalplane H-47 parked near a large building. The tail identifier reads: "134 E." The airplane i...
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Sikorsky S-37-1 Guardian

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Description: Left side view of a Sikorsky S-37-1 Guardian sitting on a runway. The tail identifier reads: "1283."There are automobiles parked near buildings in the back...
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Sikorsky S-38

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Description: Three-quarter view from front right of a Sikorsky S-38, an amphibious plane equipped with two Pratt & Whitney Wasp engines, sitting on a runway. Painted on...
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Fokker Super Universal

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Description: Side view of front of a Fokker Super Universal with pilot sitting inside. The improved cockpit enclosure allows for better visibility for the pilot.
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Ford 4-AT-A Trimotor

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Description: View of a crowd standing around a Ford 4-AT-A Trimotor sitting at a passenger terminal. The tail identifier reads: "1879."
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Keystone K-78 "Patrician"

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Description: Aerial view looking down at a Keystone K-78 "Patrician" in flight. The "Patrician" is a twenty-passenger monoplane powered by three Wright Cyclone engines....
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Sport WACO

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Description: Aerial view of a WACO ATO (also known as a 10-T Taperwing) rolling into inverted flight. The wing identifier reads: "5673." The airplane is powered by a 22...
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WACO

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Description: Three-quarter view from front right of a WACO sitting on a runway. Houses and the Miami County Courthouse are in the background.
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Lawson Air Liner Near Hangar

Date: 1919
Description: Three-quarter view from right rear of a Lawson Air Liner, which is parked outdoors near an airplane hangar. Several people are behind the airplane.

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