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Ingersoll Milling Machine Company's DC3 airplane. Two unidentified men stand on the tarmac near the airplane.

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Five men in front of the Screw Bird Airplane of Rockford Screw Products.

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Eighteen men in front of the Screw Bird airplane of Rockford Screw Products.

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Photo of the nose art on the Rockford Screw Products "Screw Bird "airplane.

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Photo Proof of three pilots for Rockford Screw Products. Gary Bender is on the right.

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Beechcraft Super King Air F90 in the air. The airplane was used by Rockford Products Corporation.

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Photo of Beechcraft King Air F90 Interior used by Rockford Products.

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Photo of Beechcraft King Air F90 Interior used by Rockford Screw Products.

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Rockford Screw Products Employees loading boxes into the nose of company's airplane, the "Screw Bird".

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Rockford Screw Products corporate airplane, the "Screw Bird" sits on the tarmac with two men shaking hands in front of it. Company President Swan Hillman sits in a Ford Thunder Bird in front of the plane.

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Rockford Screw Products founder Swan Hillman at left stands with a second unknown person in front of a biplane. The two men are wearing aviators goggles and helmets.

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Airplane landing at Camp Grant.

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A crowd of spectators gathers around an airplane that has crashed. The location is unknown.

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Jimmie Ward, a famous barnstorming aviator from 1910 - 1914, and his airplane Shooting Star. Barnstorming was an entertainment were an aviator would do stunts on an airplane while in flight. Airplanes of the 1910 era were often shipped…

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Jimmie Ward and his airplane Shooting Star. Jimmie Ward was a famous barnstorming aviator 1910 - 1914.

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Beckwith Havens, aviator, at Rockford, Illinois. Beckwith became an aeroplane salesman in 1910 for the Curtiss Aeroplane Company. In 1911, Glenn Curtiss taught Beckwith how to fly and he joined the Curtiss Exhibition Team, flying in shows in…

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Army pursuit plane, taken at the Machesney Airport. The United States Army called their fighter airplanes "pursuit aircraft" from 1916 to the late 1940s. The Machesney Airport was founded in 1927. During World War II, it was used by United States…

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Aerial view of Machesney Airport. Airplanes parked on a dirt and grass tarmac, taking off from a grass runway.

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Fred Machesney standing in front of a plane posing for a painting.

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A portrait of Fred Machesney, founder of the Machesney Airport.

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Seven men and a boy are standing near a two-seat biplane. A biplane has two sets of fixed wings stacked above each other. This is believed to be at the Machesney Airport.

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An airplane faces the camera with its propellor moving. A boy facing the airplane is in the foreground to the right. It is believed to be at the Machesney Airport.

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A biplane with number C8191 under a wing at what is believed to be the Machesney Airfield.

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An airplane faces to the right of the photo with its propellar moving, possibly at the Machesney Airport. Two men appear to be boarding the plane. Three men are walking away from the plane. World War I spurred the development of airplanes, making…

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A two-seat biplane, possibly at the Machesney Airport. The number 4210 is painted on its tail. Two men look into the plane while seven men watch.

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A two-seat biplane believed to be at the Machesney Airport. C-27 appears to be on the tail. The Caudron C-27 was a French trainer biplane used to train pilots.

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An airplane, with its propellors moving, believed to be at the Machesney Airport. A crowd of men, women, and boys watch as a man stands on the plane's wheel and leans inside.

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An airplane at what is believed to be the Machesney Airport. A crowd stands on the opposite side of the plane, looking at the plane. An identification number starting with "38" is under a wing. World War I spurred the development of airplanes, making…

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Photo ca. 1950 Luscombe plane. Written on back: "Luscombe that some of us at Woodward owned - Harold A. Hopkins (for one)"
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