Curtiss Flying School
Aviation pioneer Glenn H. Curtiss sponsored the Atlantic Coast Aeronautical Station on a 20-acre tract east of Newport News Boat Harbor in the fall of 1915 with Capt. Thomas Scott Baldwin as head. Many civilian students, including Canadians, later became famed World War 1 flyers. Victor Carlstrom, Vernon Castle, Eddie Stinson and Gen. Billy Mitchell trained here. The school was disbanded in 1922.
Marker is on Jefferson Avenue 0.3 miles south of 6th Street, on the left when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
