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Carl S. Bates

Carl Sterling Bates (January 1, 1884 - August 27, 1956) was an aviation pioneer from Clear Lake, Iowa.

Robert Noel Blair

Born in Buffalo, NY, Robert Blair is the brother of aviation pioneer Charles F. Blair, Jr., husband of Hollywood actress Maureen O'Hara.


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129561 Chuhachi

It is named after Chūhachi Ninomiya, a Japanese aviation pioneer of the 19th and 20th centuries.

1906 in Denmark

12 September – The Inventor and aviation pioneer Jacob Christian Ellehammer makes a sustained bu tethered flightin his self-built Ellehammer semi-biplane on the small island of Lindholm outside Copenhagen, three years after the world’s first historical flight by the Wright brothers in 1903.

Atlantic Coast Aeronautical Station

The Atlantic Coast Aeronautical Station was sponsored by aviation pioneer Glenn H. Curtiss on a 20-acre tract east of Newport News (VA) Boat Harbor in the Fall of 1915 with Captain Thomas Scott Baldwin as head.

Azhar Abidi

It is set in Europe during the eighteenth century and is the fictionalised story of a true life Brazilian priest and aviation pioneer, Bartolomeu de Gusmão, who built a flying ship but fell foul of the Inquisition.

Baltasar and Blimunda

Two young lovers interact naturally with historical characters including the composer and harpsichordist Domenico Scarlatti and the priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão, recognized today as an aviation pioneer, all in the shadow of the Inquisition.

Baron Brabazon of Tara

It was created in 1942 for the aviation pioneer and Conservative politician John Moore-Brabazon.

Blossom Kite Festival

The festival was founded in 1967 by aviation pioneer Paul E. Garber, also founder of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM).

Canton, Illinois

Lee Eyerly, (1892–1963) an American civil aviation pioneer and amusement ride manufacturer

Courtlandt S. Gross

Courtlandt Sherrington "Cort" Gross (21 November 1904 – 15 July 1982) was an American aviation pioneer and executive who served as a leading officer of Lockheed Corporation for 35 years.

Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company

Atlantic Coast Aeronautical Station, Newport News, VA Aviation Pioneer Glenn H. Curtiss sponsored the Atlantic Coast Aeronautical Station on a 20-acre tract east of Newport News (VA) Boat Harbor in the Fall of 1915 with CAPT. Thomas Scott Baldwn as head.

Daniel Gibson Knowlton

At the age of four, he took a short flight with Charles Lindbergh, making him the youngest person to have flown with the aviation pioneer at that time.

Earl of Meath

Their grandson John Arthur Henry Moore assumed the additional surname of Brabazon and was the father of the aviation pioneer and Conservative politician John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara.

Friedrich Hermann Wölfert

Friedrich Hermann Wölfert (17 November 1850 in Riethnordhausen, Kreis Sangerhausen - 12 June 1897 in Tempelhof (in Berlin)) was a German publisher and aviation pioneer.

George Gunther

Gunther was also instrumental in the state legislature's designation of Igor Sikorsky as a Connecticut Aviation Pioneer, and sponsored a bill supporting Gustav Whitehead's claim to having achieved controlled powered heavier-than-air flight in Bridgeport, two years before the Wright brothers' Kitty Hawk flight.

Habersack

The aviation pioneer Tony Jannus was given the middle name of Habersack, but it is uncertain of the origin of the usage.

Harold Thompson

Harold E. Thompson (1921-2003), American helicopter aviation pioneer

Hoover Field

In February 1927, a group of aviators and aviation companies, led by aviation pioneer Henry Berliner, called for the establishment of a new, larger airport on the site of just across Military Road (the southern boundary of Hoover Field).

Ivan Saric

Ivan Sarić, Yugoslavian aviation pioneer, cyclist and car racer

J. R. D. Tata

J. R. D. Tata was inspired early by aviation pioneer Louis Blériot, and took to flying.

Jack Frye

William John "Jack" Frye (March 18, 1904, Sweetwater, Oklahoma – February 3, 1959) was an aviation pioneer, who with Paul E. Richter and Walter A. Hamilton, built TWA into a world class airline during his tenure as president from 1934-1947.

Kingsford Smith

Charles Kingsford Smith (1897–1935), an early Australian aviation pioneer, after whom Sydney Airport is named

Knox Martin

William Knox Martin, a Virginia-born early aviation pioneer and flyer, and his wife Isabel Vieco, who were married in the Canal Zone in Panama in 1921.

Langley Field

The base is one of the oldest facilities of the Air Force, having been established on 30 December 1916, prior to America's entry to World War I by the Army Air Service, named for aviation pioneer Samuel Pierpont Langley.

Louis Gedeon

One of the main sources of information about the action was provided by then Corporal Benjamin Foulois, who later became an aviation pioneer and U.S. Army Major General who wrote a letter to Gedeon's Mother.

North Stoneham

The aviation pioneer, Edwin Moon, selected the flat field at North Stoneham Farm for his first flight in 1910, on what is now Southampton Airport.

Otis family

Amelia Earhart (1897-1937), noted American aviation pioneer, and author.

Saint-Jean-de-Luz

Louis Paulhan, born 1883 in Pézenas died1963 in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, a French aviation pioneer;

Santos Dumont, Minas Gerais

Santos Dumont is the birthplace of aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont and is named in his honour.

Sir Hugh Underhill

Amelia Earhart, American aviation pioneer and author famous for her mysterious disappearance.

Stearman

Lloyd Stearman, an American aviation pioneer, and founder of Stearman Aircraft

Thieffry

Edmond Thieffry (1892–1929), Belgian First World War air ace and aviation pioneer

Thomas Loring

A branch of the family were successful merchants in Spain and included an aviation pioneer Jorge Loring Martinez, and the Marquis de Casa Loring whose present-day incumbent is a 9th great granddaughter of Thomas Loring.

Wandsworth

A green plaque to commemorate aviation pioneer Alliott Verdon Roe was unveiled by Wandsworth Council and members of the Verdon-Roe family beside the A3 close to Wandsworth Fire Station on the site of Roe's first workshop in the stables of his brother's house at 47, West Hill.

William Burgess

William Starling Burgess (1878–1947), American yacht designer, aviation pioneer, and naval architect