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The Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute was an early professional trade school operated by the Curtiss-Wright corporation for aircraft maintenance training. [1] [2] Director Major C. C. Moseley was one of only three school directors selected across America to set the standards for the pre-World War II civilian pilot training program.
On June 7, 1930, the facility was dedicated and renamed Los Angeles Municipal Airport. [14] Los Angeles Municipal Airport on Army Day, c. 1931. The airport was used by private pilots and flying schools, but the city’s vision was that Los Angeles would become the main passenger hub for the area.
After it was sold and merged, the school moved to 5800 West Arbor Vitae Street in Inglewood, California near the Los Angeles airport in 1953. [13] [20] [16] Its School of Law was located at 1108 West Arbor Vitae Street in Los Angeles, California. [21] By 1977, the campus consisted of eighteen acres. [16]
Air California originated in a December 1965 meeting in Corona del Mar by William Myers, Alan H. Kenison (later a founder of Jet America Airlines), Mark T. Gates, Jr., William L. Pereira, Jr. (son of noted architect William Pereira who designed the Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) [6]) and Lud Renick to discuss air service from Orange County to San Francisco, with the ...
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The first RAF flight cadets began training in the United States in June 1941. The Army Air Corps (later Army Air Forces) maintained a small liaison detachment at each of these schools, however the RAF provided a cadre of officers for military supervision and training, while flight training was conducted by contract flying schools. [1]
In January 1949, a Sikorsky S-51 crashed off the terminal annex post office in Downtown Los Angeles, killing pilot Harry Slemmons, 27. [10]On July 2, 1951, a Sikorsky S-51 crashed in an orange grove between Pomona, California and Ontario, fatally injuring pilot John De Blau, 29, and civil aeronautics inspector, Wyman Ellis Jr., 44, both of Los Angeles.