OAKLEY G. KELLY 1891-1966

Lt. John A. Macready & Lt. Oakley G. Kelly Library of Congress Collection, 9-14-07

 
  FIRST NON-STOP FLIGHT ACROSS THE U.S., MAY 2,3, 1923  

United States Army Air Service Fokker T-2 flown by Lieutenant John A. Macready and Lieutenant Oakley G. Kelly Courtesy of Roy Nagl

 

Lt. John A. Macready & Lt. Oakley G. Kelly Library of Congress Collection, 9-14-07

 

Lt. Oakley G. Kelly & Lt. John A. Macready Library of Congress Collection, 9-18-10

 

ONLINE RESOURCES      If you search for "Oakley G. Kelly", using the Google search engine, (9-15-07), you will find about 296 links, most of them very brief and repetitious. Perhaps the most helpful is the following.

 

OAKLEY G. KELLY      This page on the Davis-Monthan Airfield.Register offers several bits of information involving Kelly. Included are two newspaper clippings showing Macready and Kelly, their Army Fokker T-2 , and a map of the cross-country flight. Also you will some interesting accounts of their fate after the record-breaking flight. You can access the site by clicking on the title above.

 

RECOMMENDED READING

John Macready Aviation Pioneer by Sally Macready Wallace A celebration of the first non-stop transcontinental flight and the pioneer who made it happen. Sunflower University Press, Manhattan, Kansas

 

Oakley G. Kelly died in 1966

 

Editor's Note: If you have any information on this pioneer aviator please contact me. E-mail to Ralph Cooper

 

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