Photo Essay:The Blakesburg Fly-In
Antique airplanes—the cream of the crop—fluttered around corn country to celebrate an air mail birthday.
- By airspacemag.com
- AirSpaceMag.com, November 18, 2008
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Caroline Sheen
1931 Stinson SM-6000B
Livery: American Airways
Tail number NC11153
Greg Herrick’s Stinson Tri-motor (at bottom, with Ford Tri-motor and Waco ASO above) was sold, brand-new, to Century Airlines in 1931, then to American Airways the following year, where it carried mail and passengers. It is the oldest surviving American Airlines airplane. The Stinson flew the mail from Blakesburg to Ottumwa to Iowa City and back on August 29.
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I remember seeing the two Sikorsky flying boats owned by
Martin and Osa Johnson at the Chanute Airport about 1933 or 1934. We lived in Chanute, Kansas at the time, and took
photographs of both planes (unfortunately, none of the photos exist today).
Posted by Robert Finch on March 9,2010 | 03:56 PM