Old Orchard Beach aviation collection, 1912-1939.

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Old Orchard Beach aviation collection, 1912-1939.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/172987465

Photographs, postcards, scrapbooks, and publications, relating to aviation history in Old Orchard Beach, Me., which is well-known in the country's history of flight because of its beaches which provided the best airstrip in the U.S., at the time, and was the nearest departure point in the country for barnstormers to attempt mostly unsuccessful transatlantic flights.

1.5 linear ft.

Harmon Museum/Old Orchard Beach Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 6919369

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Jones, Harry M. (Harry Martin), 1890-1973

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Harry M. Jones was born in Providence, R.I.; in 1912 signed up for a flying course at Saugus, Mass., and became first aviator in Rhode Island at the age of 22 in 1913; became famous in the New England area as being the first and only pilot to land an airplane on Boston Common, and later being the first pilot hired as a special air parcel post carrier, flying from Boston to New York with several stops along the way. He opened a flying school in Saugus in 1915 and began flying passengers over Bost...