Arizona Aviation History - The Ruth Reinhold Collection

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- Acrobatic balloon at Arizona territorial fairgrounds
- Rockwell
- Airships; Fairs--Arizona--Phoenix; Arizona--History--to 1912
- Ray Knabenshue at the Arizona Territorial Fairgrounds
- Curtiss golden flyer
- Bitetti, Anthony
- Airplanes; Curtiss, Glenn Hammond, 1878-1930
- Flown here by Charles F. Willard, the Golden Flyer was the first airplane in California.
- Men with two horse hitch glider
- Hansen, H.B.
- Airplanes; Aeronautics--Arizona--History
- A.M. Williams is in the driver's seat of this converted two horse hitch glider with a ground of men and a rattlesnake in the foreground.
- Early two horse hitch glider
- Stovekin, Leo
- Aeronautics--Arizona--History; Airplanes
- This early glider still requires help from the horses to coax the machine into the air. The crew from far left is Ben Goodsell, the three Bowdens, and to far right is Judge Forte.
- Eight cylinder Curtiss biplane at the First Phoenix Air Meet
- Unknown
- Airplanes; Aeronautics--Arizona--History; Air Shows
- Charles Hamilton with his eight cylinder Curtiss biplane at the First Phoenix Air Meet
- Four cylinder Curtiss biplane at the First Phoenix Air Meet
- Unknown
- Airplanes; Aeronautics--Arizona--History; Air Shows
- Charles Willard with his four cylinder Curtiss biplane at the First Phoenix Air Meet
- Pusher biplane in flight over Arizona Territorial Fairgrounds
- Unknown
- Airplanes; Aeronautics--Arizona--History; Air Shows
- This picture postcard is stamped Phoenix, AZ February 13, 1910 and shows a converted Pusher biplane after sunset in Phoenix.
- Charles Hamilton and biplane at Tucson
- Unknown
- Airplanes; Air Pilots; Aeronautics--Arizona--History; Air Shows
- Charles Hamilton ready for flight for Tucson Air show at Drachman's Elysian Grove on February 19, 1910
- Charles Hamilton in flight with onlookers by adobe construction
- Unknown
- Airplanes; Air Pilots; Aeronautics--Arizona--History; Air Shows
- Freeloading spectators watching Charles Hamilton's flgiht at the Tucson Air show at Drachman's Elysian Grove on February 19 and 20, 1910.
- The Douglas flying club with glider
- Unknown
- Airplanes; Air Pilots; Aeronautics--Arizona--History
- Members of the Douglas flying club with their partially converted glider. From far left: Judge Forte, Ben Goodsell, Felipe Mazon, Ted Bowden, Charles M. Ford, and Sparks Y. Faucet. The tow rope attachment indicates that horses were still needed...
- Pusher biplane racing a car
- Unknown
- Airplanes; Air shows; Automobiles
- Location and exact date unknown, the race between this aircraft and automobile could have taken place at any air meet in any southwestern race track.
- The Douglas bomber
- Unknown
- Airplanes; Air Pilots; Aeronautics--Arizona--History
- The Douglas bomber in flight with Charles M. Ford at the controls in the fall of 1910. The tow rope attachment is gone and the craft has been outfitted with dual landing gear wheels.
- Charles Willard and biplane
- Unknown
- Airplanes; Aeronautics--Arizona--History; Air Shows
- Charles Willard with his Curtiss biplane at the First Phoenix Air Meet in February 1910.
- Cole flyer at Yuma
- Unknown
- Airplanes; Air Pilots; Aeronautics--Arizona--History
- The Cole Flyer surrounded by a crowd following Bob Fowler's successful landing almost at home plate at the Yuma ballpark.
- Bob Fowler with Cole Flyer at Yuma
- Unknown
- Airplanes; Air Pilots; Aeronautics--Arizona--History
- Bob Fowler in white shirt and an unidentified man beside the Cole Flyer in Yuma. The two propellers that look like pinwheels are chain driven from a single engine. The Cole Flyer, a Wright Model B, was the first airplane to fly into Arizona and...
- Cal Rodgers and the Vin Fix Flyer at Willcox
- Parks, Harry
- Airplanes; Air Pilots; Aeronautics--Arizona--History
- Cal Rodgers just prior to his take off from Willcox to Tucson on November 1, 1911. He was the first coast to coast pilot and the first to land in Willcox.
- Pegasus at the First Bisbee Air Show
- Doherty, Ralph B.
- Airplanes; Air Pilots; Aeronautics--Arizona--History; Air Shows
- Didier Masson's Pegasus in front of the Warren Country Club in Bisbee, Arizona. The wheel control and interplane ailerons indicate curtiss influence, and as Masson worked for Glenn Martin at this time it was doubtless manufactured by him. The...
- Didier Masson's Sonora
- McKinney, Fred A.
- Airplanes, Military--History; Air Pilots; Arizona--History--1912-1950
- The Sonora, ready to start on a bombing expedition over Guaymas. Didier Masson is in the pilot's seat on the right side of the aircraft and to his left in a dark suit is the unidentified bombadier, possibly Gustavo Salinas or B. Alcalde.
- General Calles' Christofferson biplane
- McKinney, Fred A.
- Airplanes, Military--History; Air Pilots; Arizona--History--1912-1950
- Pilot Lawrence W. Brown and unidentified others with Christofferson biplane in the summer of 1915. The plane dropped leaflets and a dummy bomb on the U.S. infantry camp at Nogales, Arizona on July 31, 1915.
- Arizona's First Sanctioned Air Mail
- Unknown
- Air mail service -- United States; United States Postal Service; Air Pilots; Arizona--History--1912-1950
- Katherine Stinson picking up Arizona's first sanctioned air mail at the Pima County Fairgrounds in her Partridge-Keller Looper. The mail would be delivered by dropping it at a vacant lot behind the receiving post office.