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Charles Alfred Anderson Sr., (February 9, 1907 – April 13, 1996) was an American aviator who is known as the Father of Black Aviation. [1] He earned the nickname "Chief" as chief flight instructor of the Tuskegee Airmen .
In late March 1941 Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, visited Kennedy Field in the Tuskegee area and was taken up in an aircraft piloted by C. Alfred "Chief" Anderson, Tuskegee Institute's chief instructor pilot. As a result of the flight, stories appeared in newspapers across the nation.
In 1933, Forsythe and C. Alfred "Chief" Anderson were the first black pilots to make a round-trip cross-country flight from Atlantic City, New Jersey, to Los Angeles, California. [3] They made the cross country journey in a Fairchild 24 purchased by Forsythe, which they named "The Pride of Atlantic City."
Sep. 6—FRANKTON — As the sun set late Tuesday afternoon, more than 25 guests strode into Frankton Public Library for a presentation from Madison County historian Steven Jackson called "The ...
The budding flight program at Tuskegee received a publicity boost when First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt inspected it on 29 March 1941, and flew with African-American chief civilian instructor C. Alfred "Chief" Anderson.
When First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt visited Tuskegee Army Air Field in 1941, she insisted on flying with C. Alfred "Chief" Anderson, the first African American to earn his pilot's license and the first flight instructor of the Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP) organized at the Tuskegee Institute. She had the photograph of her in a training ...
List of Tuskegee Airmen contains the names of notable Tuskegee Airmen, who were a group of primarily African-American military pilots (fighter and bomber) and airmen who fought in World War II.
In September 1938, Tuskegee Airmen training impresario C. Alfred "Chief" Anderson started Howard University's Civilian Pilot Training. Williams was one of Anderson's student pilots at Howard. [8] [9] In 1940, In 1940, Tuskegee Institute recruited Anderson as its Chief Civilian Flight Instructor for the newly-minted program for African American ...