JAMES SPENCER SPAINHOUR 1879-1946

JAMES SPAINHOUR'S MONOPLANE Courtesy of North Carolina Division of Archives and History.

ONLINE RESOURCES      If you search for "James Spainhour +aviation" using the Google search engine, (9-30-03), you will find about 40 llinks. Only the one immediately below is relevant, but it is outstanding.

JAMES SPAINHOUR      You will find this entry on the North Carolina Centennial of Flight website is absolutely priceless. It offers a very nice biography of him and a photograph his monoplane from the North Carolina Division of Archives and History. You can access the site by clicking on the title above.      If time is available, you will be rewarded by visiting the homepage and sampling the other sections such as Timeline, Pioneers, Accounts, Centennial and resources. Among the pioneers you will find biographies of other aviators, some familiar, some unfamiliar, all of them interesting. Many of their stories are illustrated with priceless photographs from the North Carolina State Archive. To access the homepage, just click on the name of the website, North Carolina Centennial of Flight.

 

James Spainhour died in 1946   Editor's Note: If you have any more information on this Early Flier, please contact me. E-mail to Ralph Cooper   Back