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Recreational aviation -- Oregon

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Oral history interview with Ann M. Bohrer

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9361
Abstract

Oral history interview with Ann M. Bohrer conducted by Patricia Keith on May 12, 1980. Bohrer discusses her experiences as a woman aviator in Portland, Oregon, in the 1920s and 1930s.

Dates: 1980 May 12

Oral history interview with Billie F. Dutcher

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9127
Abstract

Oral history interview with Billie F. Dutcher, conducted by Patricia Keith on May 29, 1980. Dutcher discusses her participation in the final Powder Puff Derby, a race for women pilots, held in 1977.

Dates: 1980 May 29

Oral history interview with Ruth G. Fletcher

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9128
Abstract

Oral history interview with Ruth G. Fletcher, conducted by Patricia Keith on April 24, 1980. Fletcher discusses learning to fly airplanes at the Salem Airport from 1930 to 1931.

Dates: 1980 April 24

Oral history interview with Nona L. Goard

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9129
Abstract

Oral history interview with Nona L. Goard, conducted by Charles Digregorio on November 5, 1976. Goard discusses her experiences as a wing walker, parachute jumper, and stunt flier in St. Paul, Minnesota, from 1926 to 1932.

Dates: 1976 November 5

Oral history interview with Daniel D. Grecco

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9126
Abstract

Oral history interview with Daniel D. Grecco, conducted by Lew Cook and Grace Montgomery on December 7, 1976. Grecco watches films of early aviation held by the Oregon Historical Society Research Library, and discusses them. He also talks about repairing the Spirit of St. Louis during Charles Lindbergh’s visit to Portland in 1927.

Dates: 1976 December 7

Oral history interview with Leah Hing and Ruth Chinn

 Collection
Identifier: SR 3567
Abstract

Oral history interview with sisters Leah Hing and Ruth Chinn, conducted by Jane Leung Larson in two sessions, on April 9 and April 26, 1999. Hing and Chinn discuss their family background and early life on a hop farm in Tualatin, Oregon. Hing also talks about playing in a band whose members were all Chinese American women, and about learning to fly with pilot Tex Rankin in Portland during the 1930s.

Dates: 1999 April 9-26

Oral history interview with Leah Hing

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9130
Abstract

Oral history interview with Leah Hing, conducted by Patricia Keith on June 2, 1980. Hing discusses taking lessons from Tex Rankin at the Tex Rankin School of Flying in Portland, Oregon, during the 1930s, as well as the plane she owned and her involvement with the Ninety-Nines and the Aero Club.

Dates: 1980 June 2

Oral history interview with Leah Hing

 Collection
Identifier: SR 3568
Abstract

Oral history interview with Leah Hing, conducted by Judy Yung on April 18, 1982, as part of the Chinese Women of America Research Project. Hing looks at photographs of the Chinese community in Portland, Oregon, taken in the early 20th century and discusses them, and talks about her family background and early life on a hop farm in Tualatin, Oregon.

Dates: 1982 April 18

Oral history interview with Hazel I. Ross

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9497
Abstract

Oral history interview with Hazel I. Ross conducted by Charles Digregorio on January 29, 1976. Ross discusses the life and career of her father, William John Kilgore.

Dates: 1976 January 29

Oral history interview with Harold W. Shangle

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9131
Abstract

Oral history interview with Harold W. Shangle, conducted by Patrick Harris on February 22, 1980. Shangle discusses learning to fly airplanes and working as an airplane mechanic at the Swan Island Airport in Portland from 1928 to 1933.

Dates: 1980 February 22