Knabenshue, Roy, 1875-1960

Person

Dates

Existence: 1875 - 1960

Biographical Note: Roy Knabenshue

Augustus Roy Knabenshue was an early balloonist and aviator.

Knabenshue was born in 1875 in Lancaster, Ohio. In 1904, during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, he piloted Thomas Scott Baldwin's California Arrow dirigible to 2,000 feet and returned to the takeoff point. Then, in 1905, he was the first to make a dirigible flight over New York City in 1905 in the Toldedo II. In 1913 he built the first passenger dirigible in America: White City.

As public interest grew in airplanes, he began working for the Wright Brothers as the manager of their exhibition team. He later worked for the National Park Service. He died in California in 1960.

Gender

male

Occupations

Air pilots

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Biographical Information Files - K

Sub-Group

Scope and Contents Individuals whose names being with K: Kaiser, William [Aviation historian] "William Kaiser, Developed Nassau's Aviation Display," Newsday, January 10, 1988 Kalep, Elvy [Pilot, aviatrix] "Elvy Kalep, 90, Early Woman Pilot," Seattle Times, August 17, 1989 Kane, Fred [Pilot] Transcript of tape recording for...

Dates: circa 1900-2020s

Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives / The Museum of Flight Biographical Information Files

Goodman L. Goodmanson Los Angeles International Air Meet Photograph Album

Collection

Identifier: 1990-03-13

Abstract

Goodman L. Goodmanson (1886-1924) worked as a photographer for the Los Angeles Examiner during the 1910s. The collection is comprised of a photograph album containing sixty-three (63) black-and-white photographs depicting scenes from the Los Angeles International Air Meet of 1910 and a handwritten notecard presenting the album as a gift.

Dates: 1910

Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Series I. Wright Company, 1909-1927

Series

Scope and Contents Series I. Wright Company includes material dating from 1909-1927 and is divided into three subseries: Administrative, Legal and Financial records.The Administrative records subseries consists of bound volumes of documents. Two bound volumes with documents glued in and one additional file consist of minutes from meetings of the board of directors and executive committee. The minutes reflect such things as the reorganization of leadership in late 1915,...

Dates: 1909-1927

Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives / Curtiss-Wright Corporation Records

Archives at The Museum of Flight