HARRY PARK 1869-1955

GUARANTEED FLIGHTS - SPARLING BIPLANE USED This photo is from the letterhead which is available on the University of Milwaukee Library website.

 

ONLINE RESOURCES      If you search for "Harry Park +aviation -Korea" using the Google search engine, (9-23-03), you will find just one relevant link, besides this one.

Subject Listing: Polish Americans Image from: Kaminski, John G., 1893-1960. Papers, 1912-1960.      This webpage on the University of Wisconsin website shows a letter which Harry Park wrote to John Kaminski in 1912. It is one of the few items which is availble on the net at this time and is intereresting in its own right. You can access the site by clicking on the title above.

HARRY PARK      Harry Park, 86, passed away in Los Angeles in September, 1955. An early pioneer, he had resided in California for many years , and unfortunately he lost the sight of his eyes a few years ago.      Harry was born in Baltimore, Md., and was educated at the old Curtiss Aviation School on North iIsland in 1912. He had soloed the previous year in East St. Louis as the result or self-training. He was later a test pilot for the reconstructed Sparling-built Curtiss-type biplane, and had considerable other flying experience. He was also a journeyman printer. From The Early Birds of Aviation CHIRP, January 1956, Number 52

 

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