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Northwest Airlines Airplane
1948
A Northwest Airlines passenger plane sits on the tarmac.
Acrobatic Airplanes
August 1980
Airplanes entered in the 10th World Acrobatics Championships at Wittman Field in Oshkosh. The planes in the foreground are those of the Australian and Canadian teams. Several Pitts Aerobatic planes...
Lincoln Beachey
September 25, 1912
Lincoln Beachey, the best known aviator of the exhibition era, performed in Wisconsin with his Curtiss Pusher airplane on numerous occasions. This postcard was produced as a souvenir of his appear...
Wisconsin's First Aviation Fatality
September 5, 1913
Wisconsin's first air fatality was P.C. Davis, an exhibition pilot from Chicago, who died as a result of injuries sustained during an aerial performance in Mauston. Caption reads: "Wreck of Aeropla...
Spirit of 3.2%
circa 1930-1939
Two men stand next to a small airplane emblazoned with "Spirit of 3.2%" and "The Nation's Pioneer Goodwill Beer Ship" on the side. They are in front of a Midwest Airways, Inc. hangar that offers "...
