Aero Club of America

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The Aero Club of America issued the first pilot's licenses in the US. It was founded in 1905, and had many sister organizations. The organization gave out the Collier Trophy. Cortlandt Field Bishop was President of the Aero Club of America in 1910.

Contents 1 Aero Club of America 1.1 Airplane 1.2 Seaplane 1.3 Balloon 1.4 Airship 2 Aero Club of France 2.1 Women 3 Federation Aeronautique Internationale 4 Others 5 References

[edit] Aero Club of America

[edit] Airplane

• Note: Licenses were signed by Wilbur Wright
• 01 Glenn Curtiss
• 02 Frank P. Lahm
• 03 Lawrence W. Wright (Not related to Wright brothers)
• 04 Wright brothers
• 05 Wright brothers
• 06 Clifford B. Harmon
• 07 Thomas Scott Baldwin (1854-1923) or Alan Ramsay Hawley
• 13 Carl B. Squier
• 37 Harriet Quimby, first woman
• ?? Matilde Moisant, second woman
• ?? Julia Clark, third woman
• ?? Katherine Stinson (1891-1977) fourth woman. She convinced flight instructor Max Lillie of Chicago to take her on as a student in 1912. Katherine became the fourth licensed female pilot in the U.S., began touring as a stunt pilot and became one of the country's most famous female aviatiors. [1]
• 173 Bernetta Miller fifth woman
• ?? Marjorie Stinson, the ninth licensed female pilot in the world. [2]

[edit] Seaplane

• 26 Roger Weightman Jannus

[edit] Balloon

• 01 Thomas Scott Baldwin (1854-1923)

[edit] Airship

• 09 Thomas Scott Baldwin (1854-1923)

[edit] Aero Club of France

[edit] Women

• 01 Raymonde de Laroche

[edit] Federation Aeronautique Internationale

On August 7, 1911 Calbraith Rodgers took his official flying examination at Huffman Prairie and became the 49th aviator licensed to fly by the FAI.

[edit] Others

• Royal Aero Club (1901)
• Aero Club of America (1905)
• Aero Club of South Africa (1920)
• Aero Club of India (1927)
• Aero-Club der Schweiz
• Aero Club of France

[edit] References

• New York Times; June 23, 1910; As a result of three different conventions held in this city yesterday among aeronautical clubs and societies, the National Council of Affiliated Clubs of the Aero Club of America, was formed last night. Thirty-nine delegates, representing constituencies from Pasadena, California, to Boston, met at the Aero Club last night and perfected a temporary organization whlch will be made permanent at noon today.
• New York Times; November 3, 1910; The absence of Cortlandt Field Bishop, President of the Aero Club of America, and J. Armstrong Drexel from this city yesterday brought a lull in the controversy between the American aviator and the organization, which he criticised for its refusal to allow Grahame-White to fly a second time in the Statue of Liberty race in the international tournament at Belmont Park.