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Exhibit, Pearson Air Museum, Vancouver, Washington.
1943 North American AT-6D/SNJ-5 Texan.
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Pearson Air Museum, Vancouver, Washington ...
The Pearson Air Museum is located at Pearson Field and focuses on the period from 1905 through World War II, when Pearson Field was the site of many aviation firsts.
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Pearson Air Museum (once known as the Jack Murdock Aviation Center), Pearson Field, Vancouver, Washington.
The museum is now known simply as th "Pearson Air Museum".
Image taken March 18, 2005.
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Mural, Pearson Air Museum, Vancouver, Washington.
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Visiting Pearson Field, Washington.
Image taken October 23, 2006.
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Exhibit, Pearson Air Museum, Vancouver, Washington.
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1941 DeHavilland Tiger Moth, 1913 Voisin LA-III aircraft, and WWI-era Fokker DR-1 tri-plane (replica).
Exhibit, Pearson Air Museum, Vancouver, Washington.
Image taken April 1, 2010.
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1943 North American AT-6D/SNJ-5 Texan.
Exhibit, Pearson Air Museum, Vancouver, Washington.
Image taken April 1, 2010.
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1943 North American AT-6D/SNJ-5 Texan.
Exhibit, Pearson Air Museum, Vancouver, Washington.
Image taken April 1, 2010.
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1943 North American AT-6D/SNJ-5 Texan.
Exhibit, Pearson Air Museum, Vancouver, Washington.
Image taken April 1, 2010.
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Exhibit, Pearson Air Museum, Vancouver, Washington.
Image taken April 1, 2010.
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WWI-era Fokker DR-1 tri-plane (replica).
Exhibit, Pearson Air Museum, Vancouver, Washington.
Image taken April 1, 2010.
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WWI-era Fokker DR-1 tri-plane (replica).
Exhibit, Pearson Air Museum, Vancouver, Washington.
Image taken April 1, 2010.
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WWI-era Fokker DR-1 tri-plane (replica).
Exhibit, Pearson Air Museum, Vancouver, Washington.
Image taken April 1, 2010.
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1913 Voisin LA-III aircraft.
Exhibit, Pearson Air Museum, Vancouver, Washington.
1913 Voisin LA-III, one of only three in the world.
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1913 Voisin LA-III aircraft.
Exhibit, Pearson Air Museum, Vancouver, Washington.
1913 Voisin LA-III, one of only three in the world.
Image taken April 1, 2010.
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Airship "Gelatine" ...
The airship "Gelatine" was constructed by Thomas Baldwin, and was sponsored by the Knox Gelatine Company of Johnstone, New York. The airship made 23 flights between June and October 1905 at the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland, Oregon, with flights after early September being the Gelatine gasbag fitted onto the framework and motor of the damaged airship "City of Portland". On September 19, 1905, Lincoln Beachey piloted the "Gelatine" across the Columbia River, landing at Vancouver Barracks, Vancouver, Washington, and becoming the first controlled powered flight in Washington State.
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"Among the many attractions at the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland, Oregon, was a regular series of airship flights by Lincoln Beachey (1887-1915). Only 18 years old, Beachey had already earned the reputation as one of the most famed aviators of his day. His departure on the morning of September 19, 1905, seemed routine until the crowds watched as he flew off to the northeast. It was soon announced that the aviator was carrying a letter from Theodore Hardee, a fair official, to the commandant at the Vancouver Barracks, Gen. Constant Williams. His delivery of Hardee's greeting was hailed at the time as the first time an airship ahd been used to deliver a letter. (Library of Congress). ...
This stunt constituted the first controlled powered flight in the state of Washington (Pearson Air Museum). ...
It took a mere 40 minutes for the young aeronaut to reach the Vancouver Barracks and become the first pilot to land at what would later become Pearson Field, but a change in winds made the return to the Portland fairgrounds more difficult. As his fuel ran low, Beachey decided to land on the farm of A.B. Gilmore, near Orchards, Washington. Although he had been thwarted in his attempt to complete his return trip, Beachey's flight of almost two hours over Clark County was hailed as a new duration record, shattering by 20 minutes the flight of Alberto Santos-Dumont at the Paris Exposition of 1900 (Library of Congress). ...
Source:
Bill Alley, 2006, Images of Aviation, Pearson Field, Pioneering Aviation in Vancouver and Portland, Arcadia Publishing
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Gelatine exhibit.
Pearson Air Museum, Vancouver, Washington.
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Pilot, Gelatine exhibit.
Pearson Air Museum, Vancouver, Washington.
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Display, Gelatine exhibit.
Pearson Air Museum, Vancouver, Washington.
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The Great Silver Fleet ...
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In the 1930s Eastern Airlines manager and eventual owner, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, formed a 21-plane fleet of Douglas DC2 and DC3 planes and called it "The Great Silver Fleet". The DC-3 had enabled Eastern Air Lines to expand their daily mileage from 18,918 miles in 1936, to 23,068 in 1937.
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The Great Silver Fleet, Pearson Field, Vancouver, Washington.
Image taken March 8, 2004.
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The Great Silver Fleet, Pearson Field, Vancouver, Washington.
Image taken March 18, 2005.
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Pearson Field and one of the "Great Silver Fleet".
Image taken October 23, 2006.
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Pearson Field and one of the "Great Silver Fleet".
Image taken October 23, 2006.
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Pearson Field and one of the "Great Silver Fleet".
Image taken October 23, 2006.
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Pearson Field and one of the "Great Silver Fleet".
Image taken October 23, 2006.
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Eastern Airline Logo, DC-3, Pearson Field.
Image taken October 23, 2006.
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From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ...
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