JOHNSON FLYING SERVICE
COFFEE, TEA, OR MILK, 1922

 

TO INSPECT PLANES Dayton Daily News Thursday, July 5, 1923, page 5 Transcribed by Steve Koons, 5-18-05 Johnson Flying Park Official on Way to Georgia       A. S. Johnson and Walter Lees, of the Johnson Flying Park left Dayton Wednesday night for Americus, Ga., where they will inspect 20 Curtiss JN-4 airplanes recently purchased by the Johnson Airplane Co.       The two Daytonians will fly back to the city in separate planes. The distance being approximately 700 miles, Johnson and Lees expect to land at their flying field before Saturday of this week, the flight back taking about one day.

 

PLANE SOLD TO BLIND MAN; FINE, HE SAYS Dayton Daily News Thursday, July 26, 1923, page 5 Transcribed by Steve Koons, 5-18-05      The airplane as a cure for the blind. This new use for the flying machine was discovered Thursday by "Al" Johnson of the Johnson Flying park. J.W. Sturgil, totally blind for many years, Thursday bought a JN-4D plane of the Johnson Co. "I get a 'whale' of a thrill out of riding in an airplane," said Sturgil before purchasing his ship. "It's probably a different thrill than most people get, but it's a pleasing sensation, I can tell the minute the ship begins to maneuver," declared Sturgil. Sturgil is a mountaineer of Norton, Va. He operates a chain of general stores throughout the mountain district of his home state. J.V. Shores, likewise of Norton, Va., is Sturgil's pilot. The pair came to the Johnson field Thursday and left for Norton in the plane.

 

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