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Curtiss Flying School
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The Curtiss Flying School was started by Glenn Curtiss to compete against the Wright Flying School of the Wright brothers. The first example was located in San Diego, California. The Wright brothers had a keen interest in their competition, sending the lesser known Lorin Wright to spy and take photographs at the New York facility for a 1914 lawsuit.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
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The Curtiss Flying School was started by Glenn Curtiss to compete against the Wright Flying School of the Wright brothers. The first example was located in San Diego, California.2
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1910 San Diego, California. Training in the Curtiss Model D.
1912 Miami, Florida. Two 200 foot by 800 foot airstrips were provided by the city, with funding to ship in four training aircraft. This was the first flying service school, which eventually was donated to a Naval Air Base
1913 Hammondsport, New York
1915 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Long Branch Aerodrome, Training in the Curtiss JN-3.
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1915 Newport News, Virginia Harbor. Site of training for the Canadian Royal Flying Corps. Disbanded in 1922.
1918 Camp Claudio, Parañaque, Philippine Islands. Training site of the Philippine Air Service and the Philippine Constabulary Air Corps, which were the forerunners of the Philippine Army Air Corps and Philippine Air Force.
1929 Stratford, Connecticut Shortly afterward became Curtiss-Wright Flying School. The historic Curtis Hangar [1] still stands. Howard Hughes and Charles Lindbergh once frequented the hangar. Amelia Earhart kept a plane there. It was home to the prototype for the Vought F4U Corsair Lindbergh was a Corsair test pilot.
From Wikipedia’s article on Curtiss Flying School, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3
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