Wiley Post

...the faded boards and damaged photographs were entrusted to the Tulsa Air and Space Museum for preservation. Short's collection includes rare photographs of Wiley Post, Amelia Earhart, Will Rogers, Charles Lindbergh, Art Goebel and others.

In this article: Tulsa International Airport, Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, Will Rogers, and Tulsa, Oklahoma

...programs and exhibits on tap include salutes to world-famous aviators and Floyd Bennett Field luminaries like Howard Hughes, Wiley Post and Amelia Earhart - currently being resurrected on movie screens nationwide by actress Hilary Swank.

In this article: National Park, Floyd Bennett Field, Flatbush Avenue, New York City, Silver Gull, and Amelia Earhart

...a polar explorer, over the North Pole in 1926. It opened in 1931 as New York City's municipal airport and was used by such aviation pioneers as Wiley Post, Amelia Earhart and Howard Hughes. Today, the field is used primarily by police and...

In this article: New York City, USS Intrepid, Hudson River, Floyd Bennett Field, World War II, USS Growler, Concord, Amelia Earhart, and Richard E. Byrd

...Airport archives. The photos collected by former airport manager Charles Short are also stored in the archives, and include photos of Will Rogers, Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Wiley Post, C.R. Smith and William Skelly. The James E....

In this article: Tulsa, Oklahoma, American Airlines, World War II, Charles Lindbergh, Oklahoma, Space Shuttle, Pearl Harbor attacks, and F-14 Tomcat

...was purchased from the Lockheed Aircraft Corp., called the Lockheed Vega, the same model used by Wiley Post in his round-the-world flight, and by Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. The aircraft was christened...

In this article: Feliksas Vaitkus, Atlantic, Lituanica, Kaunas, Korean War, B-29 bombers, Amelia Earhart, and Lockheed Aircraft Corp.

...of New York's first municipal airport. The airport opened in 1930 and was visited by the likes of the famed aviator Wiley Post, who twice used the field for record-breaking round-the-world flights. Other high-fliers who touched down there...

In this article: Brooklyn, Brooklyn Aces, Floyd Bennett Field, Ice hockey, New York, World War II, and Kung Fu Fighting

...pilots including Charles Lindbergh and his Spirit of St. Louis airplane in 1927, Will Rogers and Wiley Post in 1931, General Jimmy Doolittle in 1932, Amelia Earhart in 1936, Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan in 1938; as well as celebrities Kate...

In this article: Syracuse, Syracuse Hancock International Airport, Charles Hanna, Municipal Airport, Chemical waste, Syracuse Municipal Airport, World War II, Jimmy Doolittle, and Amelia Earhart

...Post's "Winnie Mae" at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center Both Wiley Post's Winnie Mae and Amelia Earhart's Vegas are a part of the collection of the National Air and Space Museum. Earhart's Transatlantic Vega is on display at the original...

In this article: Lockheed, Amelia Earhart, Detroit Aircraft Corporation, and National Air and Space Museum

...the plaque is inside of the mall outside of the Disney Store. As an airfield, the land served as the take-off site of many famous aviators such as Amelia Earhart and Wiley Post. Charles Lindbergh's solo translatlantic flight took off from...

In this article: Bloomingdale's, Alexander's, Gimbels, Dick's Sporting Goods, Macy's, Stern's, Abraham & Straus, Jcpenney, and Nordstrom