Early aviation history was made here when these pioneers flew powered aircraft to and from this site between 1909—1916.

Wilbur Wright •

Lincoln Beachy •

Glenn H. Curtiss •

Eugene Ely •

Charles K. Hamilton • Hugh A. Robinson • Harry N. Atwood • James J. Ward • Harry M. Jones • Albert S. Heinrich • Harold Kanther • Victor Carlstrom • Steve MacGordon • Raynal C. Bolling • Ruth B. Law

From May 1916 to March 1917, members of the Governors Island Training Corps flight trained here.

Captain Philip A. Carroll—Commanding

Filip A. Bjorklund—Instructor

Charles Reed • Lawrence Sperry • J. Walter Struthers • Hobart A. H. Baker • William A. Aarned • Al Sturtevant • Frederick T. Blakeman • Edwin M. Post, Jr. • Stedman S. Hanks • William Walton • Cord Meyer • Albert B. Gaines, Jr. • Charles D. Wiman • Howard G. Lapsley • James E. Miller • John M. L. Rutherford • Seth Low

Major General Leonard Wood, U.S.A.—Commanding

Headquarters, Eastern Department

Erected under the auspices of the Early Birds, an organization of those who flew solo before December 17, 1916.

Marker is on Early Bird Road near Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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