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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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Visibility Limited

Date: 1976
Description: Airplane landing at Mitchell Field in dense fog.
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Blue Angel Drill Team

Date: 1970
Description: "The famous Blue Angel Drill Team visits Milwaukee."
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Milwaukee's Air Terminal

Date: 06 21 1955
Description: Night view of the air terminal at Mitchell Field. In the foreground is the wing and propeller of a large airplane.
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Curtiss-Wright Field

Date: 03 17 1931
Description: A scene at Curtiss-Wright Field in Milwaukee. Pictured are Arthur D. Gaspar, a Waukesha funeral director, and Paul Trier, the pilot of the Curtiss Thrush. ...
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Milwaukee County Airport Origins

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Description: The airfield of the Hamilton Aero Manufacturing Company which became the site of Milwaukee County Airport in 1926. It was established by Thomas Hamilton, a...
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1,000,000th Passenger

Date: 12 16 1966
Description: A man in a coat and hat is walking down the airstairs of a plane. Caption reads: "Andrew Depta, of Cable (Bayfield county), set a Gen. Mitchell field recor...
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Lyndon Johnson Greeted at Airport

Date: 10 30 1964
Description: President Lyndon Johnson accompanied by Governor John Reynolds and Senator Gaylord Nelson is greeted at Mitchell International Airport by girls dressed in ...
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Mitchell Airport Farewell

Date: 06 1963
Description: Children, adults, and a Northwest Airlines Boeing 707 jetliner on the tarmac at General Mitchell International Airport. The children, all first graders fro...
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Mitchell Weather Watching

Date: 12 29 1987
Description: Bored travelers at General Mitchell International Airport, apparently taking their cue from a droopy travel poster advertising vacations in the sunny Carib...
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Nixon Campaign Stop in Milwaukee

Date: 10 08 1960
Description: The speakers platform during a Presidential campaign rally for Richard M. Nixon at Billy Mitchell Airport in Milwaukee. With Nixon on the platform are Kirb...
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National German Song Festival Attendees

Date: 07 28 1956
Description: Several people posing outside a Flying Tiger Line airplane, on the ground and on the airstair. The airstair has logos for Northwest Airlines. Caption reads...
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First Wisconsinites to Visit Poland after World War II

Date: 06 18 1956
Description: Ten women and two men posing on the airstair to a plane. Several of the people are waving. The airstair has a Capital Airlines logo. Caption reads: "The...

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