Recreational aviation -- Oregon
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Oral history interview with Ann M. Bohrer
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.
Oral history interview with Billie F. Dutcher
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.
Oral history interview with Ruth G. Fletcher
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.
Oral history interview with Nona L. Goard
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.
Oral history interview with Daniel D. Grecco
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.
Oral history interview with Leah Hing and Ruth Chinn
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.
Oral history interview with Leah Hing
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.
Oral history interview with Leah Hing
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.
Oral history interview with Webster A. Jones
Oral history interview with Webster A. Jones, conducted by Louis Flannery on December 11, 1980. Jones discusses his journalism career at the Oregonian newspaper in Portland; his experiences as a pilot; and his interest in collecting books on Oregon history.
Oral history interview with Hazel I. Ross
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.