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Site Map – 1905-1920

1905-1920
From kites to catapults

Historic image of early aviators preparing a biplane on a beach, with several bicycles in the foreground.
Daytona Beach attracts early fliers
Pilot Howard Gill performs in Miami 1911
Miami takes to the skies
A hydroplane landing on water in front of the Royal Palm in Miami, Florida.
Curtiss Aviation School offers flying lessons for everyone
Historic postcard featuring a portrait of Domingo Rosillo, surrounded by a vintage view of Key West and Havana, with ships and a lighthouse in the background, dated May 17, 1913.
The Key West-Havana challenge
St. Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line
St. Petersburg-Tampa Air Boat Line is world’s first scheduled air service
Historic waterfront scene with boats docked near a shore, featuring a building and palm trees in the background.
America Trans-Oceanic Company sets up shop in Palm Beach
Post Card of Pensacola Naval Air Station
Pensacola is home to first Naval Air Station in the nation
Black and white historical photograph of a zeppelin flying over a hangar, with telephone poles and railroad tracks in the foreground.
NAS Key West sends wings over the Keys
Cadet at NAS Miami WWI
Naval Air Station is built on Miami’s Dinner Key
Army Signal Corps establishes aero-gunnery school at Chapman Field
A historic black and white photo of a male and female aviator sitting in an early aircraft on water, both wearing goggles, with boats visible in the background.
Aero Limited arrives in Miami with pilot Harry Rogers
A man standing in front of a building, wearing formal attire with a bow tie and long trousers. The building has a sign indicating an office.
George Haldeman explores Cloudland from Lakeland
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