Description: Illustration of the 302nd squadron of the Tuskegee Airmen 332nd fighter group, Spit Fire, by A. Ric Druet. This print is autographed by A. Ric Druet and several Tuskegee Airmen. The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American pilots in the armed forces of the United States. The squadron was formed in 1941 and based in Tuskegee, Alabama. Print 33 of 1500 ALTERNATE TEXT: Three airplanes sit on a runway at a military base. There is one plane in the air, which is blue with large clouds. The planes all have red noses and tails, with silver bodies. The closest plane is the "Ina the Macon Belle", and it has a pilot inside and a mechanic on the wing. The second plane, "Alice-Jo", also has a pilot in the cockpit and mechanic on the wing. The last plane grounded is "Lucifer" and has the mechanic on the ground and a mechanic looking at the nose. Three men stand to the left next to a Jeep-like Humvee vehicle, marked 219321. Two men are further to the left with the furthest man in a brown leather jacket. Another Humvee sits further up the runway, in front of the last plane. A tent is behind that Humvee. The bottom of the image has signatures with an image of a red flying devil wielding a pitch fork. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS_6_B11F2_01
Subjects: African American soldiers; African American men; African American Ohioans; Air pilots; Airplanes; Tuskegee Airmen; United States. Air Force.; World War II
 

Description: Illustrated portraits of Tuskegee Airmen from Central Ohio. The portraits are signed by the pilots. The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American pilots in the armed forces of the United States. The squadron was formed in 1941 and based in Tuskegee, Alabama. ALTERNATE TEXT: Artwork of nine African American men who were part of the Tuskegee Airmen. The image includes two airplanes; the right airplane has a red nose and tail. Beneath the red plane is a distant field of grass and trees with a road going through them. There is also a pilot in the cockpit. Top left corner: Herndon 'Don' Cummings- He wears goggles on the top of his head and a collared shirt. He has a smile on his face. Top middle: Alex Boudreaux- He wears a helmet with goggles on his forehead. He has a jacket on along with a collared shirt and tie. Second row, left: Walter McCreary- He wears an officer's hat with a United States eagle seal. He also wears a collared shirt with pins on the lapels. Second row, second to left: Walter Kyle- He wears a dark officer's hat with a United States eagle seal, and a collared shirt. He also has a small moustache. Second row, middle: Walter Davidson- He wears a hat with a collard shirt and a tie. Second row, second from right: Harold Sawyer- He wears an officer's hat with a United States eagle seal. He also wears a collared shirt with a tie. Second row, right: Harold Brown- He wears a collared shirt with pins on the lapels. Bottom row, left: Charles 'C.I.' Williams- He wears a hat with a pin on it. He also has on a collared shirt with a tie. Bottom row, right: William Watkins- He wears a dark officer's hat with a United States eagle seal, and a collared shirt. His suit jacket has a patch on his left side, which has wings above a star and the number 1 above the wings. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_OVS19
Subjects: African American soldiers; African American men; African American Ohioans; Air pilots; Airplanes; Tuskegee Airmen; United States. Air Force.; World War II
Places: Ohio; Tuskegee (Alabama)
 

Description: Autographed photograph of the airplane flown by famous female pilot Amelia Earhart. Major Raymond Newson, United States Air Force, obtained Earhart's autograph in Miami, Florida shortly before she left on her last flight in June 1937. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01682
Subjects: Airplanes; Ohio History
Places: Miami (Florida)
 

Description: Autographed photograph of an airplane flown by aviation pioneer Clarence Chamberlin. Major Raymond Newson, United States Air Force, obtained the autograph in the 1930s. Chamberlin was born in Ohio in 1893. He was a Signal Corps pilot, a barnstormer and a pilot for the Wright Corp. In 1927 Chamberlin became the second American pilot, after Charles Lindbergh, to cross the Atlantic Ocean. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01683
Subjects: Airplanes; Ohio History
 

Description: People sitting and standing at the entrance to an airplane exhibit, under a banner that reads: "Bonney-Fisher Monoplane Exhibit." The same banner can be seen on the tent. A monoplane is a fixed-wing airplane with one set of wings, as opposed to a biplane or triplane. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a travelling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07777
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Aviation--History; Airplanes; Photographers--Ohio; Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio)
 

Description: This Ford Tri-motor flew for Island Airlines, the passenger service from Port Clinton to the Lake Erie Islands. Island Airlines got its first Ford Tri-motor in 1946, which flew twice-daily flights between Port Clinton Municipal Airport (now Erie-Ottawa International Airport) and Put-In Bay, Kelleys Island, and Middle Bass and North Bass Islands. The airline eventually operated four Tri-motors, each of which could transport 10 passengers. Island Airlines ceased operations in 1985. The Ohio History of Flight Museum, located at Port Columbus, was the creation of Foster Lane, founder of Lane Aviation in Columbus, Ohio. It opened to the public in 1984 and gained a reputation as one of the top aviation resource centers in the United States. In 1999, its collection (which includes this image) was donated to the Ohio History Center View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1704AV_B02F09_03
Subjects: Aviation--History; Lake Erie Islands (Ohio); Airplanes; Island Airlines; Transportation--Ohio--History;
Places: Port Clinton (Ohio); Ottawa County (Ohio)
 

Description: These Ford Tri-motors flew for Island Airlines, the passenger service from Port Clinton to the Lake Erie Islands. Island Airlines got its first Ford Tri-motor in 1946, which flew twice-daily flights between Port Clinton Municipal Airport (now Erie-Ottawa International Airport) and Put-In Bay, Kelleys Island, and Middle Bass and North Bass Islands. The airline eventually operated four Tri-motors, each of which could transport 10 passengers. Island Airlines ceased operations in 1985. The Ohio History of Flight Museum, located at Port Columbus, was the creation of Foster Lane, founder of Lane Aviation in Columbus, Ohio. It opened to the public in 1984 and gained a reputation as one of the top aviation resource centers in the United States. In 1999, its collection (which includes this image) was donated to the Ohio History Center View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1704AV_B02F09_02
Subjects: Aviation--History; Lake Erie Islands (Ohio); Airplanes; Island Airlines; Transportation--Ohio--History;
Places: Port Clinton (Ohio); Ottawa County (Ohio)
 

Description: Passengers boarding a Ford Tri-motor in Port Clinton, Ohio. This Ford Tri-motor flew for Island Airlines, the passenger service from Port Clinton to the Lake Erie Islands. Island Airlines got its first Ford Tri-motor in 1946, which flew twice-daily flights between Port Clinton Municipal Airport (now Erie-Ottawa International Airport) and Put-In Bay, Kelleys Island, and Middle Bass and North Bass Islands. The airline eventually operated four Tri-motors, each of which could transport 10 passengers. Island Airlines ceased operations in 1985. The Ohio History of Flight Museum, located at Port Columbus, was the creation of Foster Lane, founder of Lane Aviation in Columbus, Ohio. It opened to the public in 1984 and gained a reputation as one of the top aviation resource centers in the United States. In 1999, its collection (which includes this image) was donated to the Ohio History Center View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1704AV_B02F09_01
Subjects: Aviation--History; Lake Erie Islands (Ohio); Airplanes; Island Airlines; Transportation--Ohio--History;
Places: Port Clinton (Ohio); Ottawa County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of eight Ohio Airmen as they receive a commendation read by their commanding officer in Okinawa, July 24, 1945. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03376
Subjects: Airplanes; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Awards
Places: Okinawa
 

Description: Interior view of the control tower at the Port Columbus International Airport with operators at work, Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1950-1970. Port Columbus opened on July 8, 1929, on a location chosen by famed pilot Charles Lindbergh. A new control tower was built and put into use in 2004. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05386
Subjects: Airports--Ohio--Columbus; Airplanes; Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Illustration of the 301st squadron of the Tuskegee Airmen 332nd fighter group, Spit Fire, by A. Ric Druet. This print is autographed by A. Ric Druet and several Tuskegee Airmen. The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American pilots in the armed forces of the United States. The squadron was formed in 1941 and based in Tuskegee, Alabama. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS_6_B11F3_01
Subjects: African American soldiers; African American men; African American Ohioans; Air pilots; Airplanes; Tuskegee Airmen; United States. Air Force.; World War II
 

Description: Airplane soaring and gliding overhead near what is most likely Cincinnati Municipal Airport. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F05_20_01
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio); Cincinnati Lunken Municipal Airport; Transportation--Ohio--History.; Airports; Airplanes; Flight; Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)