Fueling an airplane in the late 1920s at Old Lancaster Airport. Five gallon cas of gasoline from the fuel truck were poured through a chamois filter into the airplane's fuel tank.
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.
The Curtiss Condor airplane visited the new Lancaster Municipal Airport to sell rides, day or night, to Lancaster countians. The pilot was the famed transatlantic flyer Clarence Chamberlin.
