Photograph- Jessie Jones, right, holding a goose, pilot and teacher at the old Lancaster airport on the Manheim Pike, with, left, Dick Knight, parachute test jumper.
Photograph- Jessie Jones, right, holding a goose, pilot and teacher at the old Lancaster airport on the Manheim Pike, with, left, Dick Knight, parachute test jumper.
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Jessie Jones, right, holding a goose, pilot and teacher at the old Lancaster airport on the Manheim Pike, with, left, Dick Knight, parachute test jumper.
Paul Schlotzhauer with two pilots in front of an airplane. Written on back: "Lt. W. T. Margalis, Lt. R. K. Black, Paul Schlotzhauer, Lancaster Airport. Martin Bomber".
Paul Schlotzhauer with his airplane and car at Lancaster Airport
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Paul Schlotzhauer with an airplane and and automobile at Lancaster Airport. Written on back: "Paul Schlotzhauer, Taylor Cub Airplane T-2 and Pierce Arrow Car at Lancaster Airport, 1937".
Aerial view of Lancaster Airport. Written on back: "Lancaster Airport, Manheim Pike, 1 mile from city. Taken at 1,000 ft altitude by W. F. Hallowell. Pilot Paul Schlotzhauer."
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.