Banquet at the Brunswick Hotel where Lancaster Aero Club and the Chamber of Commerce entertained the pilots participating in the "first Pennsylvania Goodwill Tour" sponsored by the Aero Club of Pennsylvania.
Lancaster's "First Aviation Show" held in the Keystone Furniture Company Building, 2-4 West King Street, Lancaster, January 14-19, 1929. Aero Model Company exhibit.
Pilot Jesse Jones at the controls of Ryan Brougham B-5 airplane owned by Howard M. Hersh at leased to Lancaster Airways, Inc. under an agreement dated November 8, 1929. This was the first enclosed cabin airplane available for passenger service at the Manheim Pike airport which had been established by Jones in 1927.
Photograph- East side of the second block of North Queen Street, c. 1973. Second floor building on lower right corner was occupied by the Chamber of Commerce in the 1920s.
Photograph- East side of the second block of North Queen Street, c. 1973. Second floor building on lower right corner was occupied by the Chamber of Commerce in the 1920s.
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East side of the second block of North Queen Street, c. 1973. Second floor building on lower right corner was occupied by the Chamber of Commerce in the 1920s.
New Holland Airport. Note from back of photo: The Taylorcraft owned by the Conestoga Aero Corporation, a flying club based at the New Holland Airport between 1949 and c.1970. the Taylorcraft had a Continental 65 hp engine, which was started by "pulling the prop". It was side-by-side seating and had only basic instruments.
Lancaster's "First Aviation Show" held in the Keystone Furniture Company Building, 2-4 West King Street, Lancaster, January 14-19, 1929. Stevens Trade School exhibit.
