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Frank Purdy Lahm (November 17, 1877 – July 7, 1963) was an American aviation pioneer, the "nation's first military aviator", and a general officer in the United States Army Air Corps and Army Air Forces.
Lahm was appointed assistant to the chief of the Air Corps with the rank of brigadier general in July 1930. In 1931 Lahm went to France as assistant military attache for air. Four years later he was chief of aviation for the First Army at Governors Island, N.Y.
Jul 10, 2022 · With an avid interest in flight, American aviation pioneer Frank P. Lahm became the United States's first-ever military pilot after meeting the Wright Brothers in 1907. Born on November 17, 1887, in Mansfield, Ohio, to Adelaide Way Purdy and Frank Samuel Lahm.
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Last Flight for Frank Lahm. The earnest young cavalryman, who in the dawning years of the century, saw the potential of the Wright brothers’ flying contraption, helped get the Army interested, was himself taught to fly by the Wrights, and helped build the Air Force’s “West Point of the Air,” is dead at eighty-five.
Aug 1, 2007 · Frank Lahm became assistant chief of the Air Corps in 1926 and retired in 1941 as a brigadier general. He and Chandler wrote a book, How Our Army Grew Wings, which was published in 1943. Frederick Humphreys, who had been first to solo, resigned from the Army in 1910.
Dec 16, 2021 · Mansfield native Frank P. Lahm is considered to be the nation's first military aviator, and was honored in 1967 when the Mansfield Lahm Regional Airport was named after him.
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Frank Lahm, an original Early Bird, landed at the Davis-Monthan Airfield as pilot in command on January 25, 1928, already a Brigadier General. He carried Captain A.B. McDaniel (also a Register pilot) as his single passenger in a Curtiss O-1B, 25-330.
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