Glenn Curtiss with First Army and Navy Fliers at Curtiss' Flying School, San Diego, California, 1911
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Glenn Curtiss supplemented his manufacturing income with a flight training school on North Island, near San Diego. The U.S. Army and Navy both supplied Curtiss with a steady stream of students as the military adopted the airplane. Curtiss encouraged the Army and Navy to establish their own facilities on the island. Naval Air Station North Island was founded in 1917.
Glenn Curtiss supplemented his manufacturing income with a flight training school on North Island, near San Diego. The U.S. Army and Navy both supplied Curtiss with a steady stream of students as the military adopted the airplane. Curtiss encouraged the Army and Navy to establish their own facilities on the island. Naval Air Station North Island was founded in 1917.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
1911
Creators
Unknown
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
84.1.1629.12
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 4.125 in
Width: 3.75 in
Inscriptions
in image at top: Lt. Ellyson, USN; Lt. Paul Beck, USA; G. H. Curtiss; Lt Kelly, USA; / Lt Walker. San Diego 1911 lower right corner: 9387-A. [illegible]
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