Keywords: plane landing
Item 105124
First plane landing, Westport Island, 1948
Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: 1948-09-15 Location: Westport Island Media: Photographic print
Item 20819
'The Dawn,' Old Orchard Beach, 1927
Contributed by: Old Orchard Beach Historical Society Date: 1927-10-10 Location: Old Orchard Beach Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Following his historic flight across the Atlantic in May 1927, aviator Charles Lindbergh commenced a tour across America, greeted by cheering crowds at every stop. He was a day late for his speaking engagement in Portland, due to foggy conditions. Elise Fellows White wrote in her diary about seeing Lindbergh and his plane.
Exhibit
Maine has some 17 million acres of forest land. But even on a smaller, more local scale, trees have been an important part of the landscape. In many communities, tree-lined commercial and residential streets are a dominant feature of photographs of the communities.
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 3 of 4
"… days of aviation when it was quite common for planes to take off and land on the beaches. The seven-mile stretch of beach from the easterly tip of…"
Site Page
Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Aviation
"… with her crew, landed her Sikorsky S-36 amphibian plane the "Dawn" on Old Orchard Beach. Her goal was to set up base in Old Orchard for her…"
Story
Welcome home Sgt. Cunningham
by Donald C Cunningham
It was great to be back in Maine.
Story
Learning to fly and instructing cadets at West Point during WWII
by Vera Cleaves
West Point during World War II
