Tag: Long Island Aviation Country Club
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Dec 08 2018
Updated: The 1940 Membership of the Long Island Aviation Club
In my effort to collect everything related to the Vanderbilt Cup Races and the Long Island Motor Parkway, years ago I purchased the 1940 membership book of the Aviation Club of Long Island (Long Island Aviation Club). It turns out to be an important research tool for Dr. Katherine Sharp Landdeck
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Oct 20 2018
Femenias Findings: A New Interactive Online Map of the Long Island Motor Parkway
Inspired by Wayne Consolla's online Motor Parkway map, our master mapper Frank Femenias has created a new interactive online map of the Long Island Motor Parkway.
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Jan 27 2018
Cradle of Aviation Archives: The Aircraft of the Long Island Aviation Country Club Part I
The Cradle of Aviation Museum has provided 68 images of the Long Island Aviation Country Club taken from 1930 to 1949. In the first of the LIAM series, several of the notable aircraft that flew from this private airfield are featured.
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Dec 20 2017
VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: The Lost East Wing of the Long Island Aviation Country Club
On Tuesday, my favorite co-author Al Velocci and I went exploring for lost sections of the clubhouse of the Long Island Aviation Country Club. Amazingly, we found the lost east wing!
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Oct 10 2016
Mystery Foto #41 Solved: An Aerial of East Meadow and Levittown Circa 1949
This weekend's Mystery Foto documented a booming suburb in Nassau County.
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Apr 11 2016
Mystery Foto #15 Solved: Motor Parkway Parking Space Adjacent to Long Island Aviation Country Club
Frank Femenias found this rare Mystery Foto of the Long Island Aviation Country Club located in Hicksville (now Levittown).
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Mar 27 2016
Searching for the Site of the Long Island Aviation Country Club & the Grandstands Updated 5/3/16
Richard Sloan is working on a submission to the Town of Hempstead to place a historical marker for the Long Island Aviation Country Club in Levittown.
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Aug 05 2015
More Photos of the Long Island Aviation Country Club by Alfred Eisenstaedt
As a follow-up to last weekend's Mystery Foto, here are additional photos of the Long Island Aviation Club and its members taken by the renown Life photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt.
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Aug 03 2015
Mystery Foto #31 Solved: Alfred Eisenstaedt’s Photos of the Long Isand Aviation Country Club in 1937
Last weekend's Mystery Foto featured an airfield which was located near the Long Island Motor Parkway.
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Jul 08 2015
Long Island Motor Parkway Illustrated Maps (1906-1933)
Art Kleiner discovered this 1932 illustrated map of the Motor Parkway in a portfolio of aerial photographs taken by Captain Alfred G. Buckham.
