R. L. Gerhart Company's Ryan monoplane advertised El Capitan Coffee. Pilot Jesse Jones stands at left. This is thought to be the first business aircraft purchased by a Lancaster County company. It was the sister ship of the Ryan "Spirit of St. Louis" flown by Charles Lindbergh from New York to Paris in May 1927.
Committee to choose a site for the new Municipal Airport included members of Lancaster Chamber of Commerce, American Business Club and Lancaster Aero Club. Pictured left to right are Jesse P. Jones, Sumner L. Brown, George P. Luckey, A.D. Howry, John H. Carter, Charles B. Weise, F.K. Brinkman, W.S. Raub, H.M. Hersh, William D. Grant, S.R. Slaymaker and G.W. Birrell. Photo take December 7, 1929. William Grant, Christiana businessman and president of Lancaster Airways, Inc. was killed in an auto accident three days later.
Group of 6 men in military uniform. Identified left to right are: George Ritnour, ?, ?, ?, Roy Geltz and Ernie Beuhl. Franklin and Marshall V5 Navy Pilot training at the Lancaster Municipal Airport.
Group of men from the Fin and Feather Club gathered with the porch of a farmhouse. Outing at L. Wiedler's farm near Oregon, Manheim Township. L. Wiedler may be Louis Wiedler.
Unidentified man sitting in cockpit, woman seated on wing and pilot seated in rear seat of Lancaster Airways, Inc. airplane. The Lancaster Airways logo of a red rose with wings and the phrase "the Red Rose City" is seen on the side of the plane. The company was formed in May of 1928.
