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Curtiss Flying School
Location: Foot of Jefferson Avenue, Newport News VA Description:
"Aviation pioneer Glenn H. Curtiss sponsored the
Atlantic Coast Aeronautical Station on a 20-acre tract
east of Newport News Boat Harbor in the fall of 1915 with
Capt. Thomas Scott Baldwin as head. Many civilian
students.comluding Canadians, later became famed World
War I flyers. Victor Carlstrom, Vernon Castle, Eddie
Stinson and Gen. Billy Mitchell trained here. The school
was disbanded in 1922."
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