Photo # 9 -- "Red Wing" first aeroplane to make a public flight in America.  On March 17, 1908, it flew 319 feet from the ice on Keuka Lake, N.Y.  F. W. "Casey" Baldwin, pilot. Aeroplane was wrecked.

Photo courtesy June Sturgis, daughter-in-law of early pilot Parker Brooks Sturgis

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