Billy Bomar Hanging by His Hands, c. 1925
Typical of the air thrills at the time is Billy Bomar hanging by his hands from a strut of a New Standard over Manhattan. Photo from the collection of Frank Strnad.
View of Hangars on Manhasset Isle, 1938
View of Manhasset Bay, in front of Pan American hangar on Manhasset Isle. Notice the flying boat that just landed! The hangar floors were absolutely without a grease spot on them anywhere, the docks and floats were freshly painted, and a
Sikorsky S-42
Built by Sikorsky Aircraft Co., this plane was used for Pan American's first flights from Port Washington to Bermuda in 1937 and for transatlantic survey flights.
Republic RC-3 Seabee Pulled By Crane, 1949
This seaplane was owned by Ray Profitt, of Ray Profitt Seaplane Base. The photograph was taken by Everitt J. Hehn Insurance, of 51 Main Street in Port Washington, in July 1949. If you're interested in learning more about this aircraft check
Seaplane Pulled Out of Water, 1949
Republic RC-3 Seabee that belonged to Ray Profitt, owner of Ray Profitt Seaplane Base, being taken out of the water by a crane. The photograph was taken by Everitt J. Hehn Insurance of 51 Main Street, Port Washington and is
Allan Litty & Wife With Their Piper J-3
Photo from the collection of Allan Litty. Taken at the Tom's Point Skyport.
Allan Litty & His Piper J-3 at Tom’s Point Skyport
Photo from the collection of Allan Litty. For more information about the Piper J-3 see the Wikipedia entry or the Piper Cub Forum website. Allan Litty said: We'd have air shows. Could you imagine today, if someone said 'I'm gonna walk a wing,'
Gerald Biddle’s Class, Grade 2, Sands Point School, 1942
Top: (l-r) Malcolm Hill, Ralph Ciminera, Earl Da Costa, Gerald Biddle Middle: (l-r) Tommy Dumpson, Wilbur Lewis, Carl Held, Donald Hansen, Lindsay Wiles, Henry Baginski Bottom: (l-r) Jean Kelly, Joan Curtin, Wilma Noga, Helena Jenkins, Gloria Veit, Rita Karemski, Carolyn Gaeta, Francis
Pan American Passengers Check-In, c. 1940s
No ticket kiosks, no metal detectors, no arrival and departure monitors
Clarence Phillips & Bill Dumpson, June 1983
Taken at the Littig House Community Center. Photo by Dorothea Hahn.
Miscellaneous Business Cards
Click on any of the images to enlarge. General Airplane Service - A. Bilgren Aeronca - Jackson Flying Service, Memership Card [FRONT] Aeronca - Jackson Flying Service, Memership Card [BACK] Roosevelt Aviation School Inc. - Bob Fraser Frank Steinman Roy Munoz August Lauer presents "Materialistic Angel Wings"
Munch & Romeo Flying Service Rates, 1937
$60 for one lesson in 1937 -- WOW! That's nearly $900 in 2009 dollars. (Source)
‘The Aviators March’ By John Philip Sousa
Local resident John Philip Sousa, the "march king," composed "The Aviators March" in 1932 to celebrate the local citizen's role in an exciting new era of technology and hope fo the future. The sheet music was published by the Theodore Presser
Minnie Biddle at Christmas, 1946
b. 1870, d. 1971. Wife of William Biddle. Sister of Wallace Townsend.
Eddie Harrington & Friends at Jamaica Sea Airport, 1930
(l. to r.) Al Meadows, John Martin, Bob Leib, Edward Harrington in front of American Eagle with OX-5 engine. Photo from the collection of Edward Harrington.
Passengers Prepare To Board Pan Am’s Boeing Clipper
Photo from the Pan American World Airways, Inc. Records, Archives and Special Collections Department, Otto G. Richter Library, University of Miami.
Captain Edward Harrington, c. 1968
At the helm of a DC-8-61 Trans Caribbean Airways jet. Harrington said: For 727 and DC-8 training I was going day and night and so were the airplanes. I used to call it 'Trans-Exhaustion Airlines'.
Female Grumman Aviator
Women were not only riveters. They also flew the planes! Photo from the Grumman Corporation Archives.
Ward Davidson, Jr. With His Family, December 1931
Ward Davidson, Jr. (right) was one of Port Washington's youngest aviation enthusiasts at the time. By the 1930s, entire families had become "airminded."
John T. McCoy Painting of 1939 Dixie Clipper
Caption reads: "Dixie Clipper completes first transatlantic passenger flight / New York to Lisbon, Portugal, June 29, 1939 / Boeing B-314". This flight had left from Port Washington the day before, captained by R. O. D. Sullivan, with 22 passengers on