AVIATION IN MIAMI - The First 100 Years Exhibit - was at HistoryMiami - click on image to view
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All-American Airport / Miami International Master Field / NAS Miami South Field #1 / MCAS Miami / MASTERS FIELD Gallery
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Brown's Airport / Aero Country Club Photo Gallery - click on image to enter
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Glenn Curtiss Field, Miami Municipal Airport, Amelia Earhart Field Photo Gallery
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Hialeah Airport / NW 54th Street Flying Field Historical Photos Gallery - click on image to enter
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Homestead Air Force Base / Homestead Air Reserve Base / Homestead Joint Air Reserve Base (HST) - Historical Photos Gallery
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Marine Flying Field Miami (one of the Curtiss Flying Fields leased from Glenn Curtiss)
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NRAB Miami, Naval Air Station (NAS) Miami, MCAS Miami then Opa-locka Airport - Historical Photo Gallery
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Pan American Field - 36th Street Airport - MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (MIA) - Historical Photos Gallery
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Other Historical South Florida Airports (Viking, Sunny South, Homestead General, Tamiami, North Perry, TNT etc.)
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1959 List of Airports in Dade County - click on image to enter
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Steve McDonald's Memories of South Florida Aviation and Airports - click on image to enter
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Historical Eastern Air Lines (later Airlines) Photo Gallery - click on image to enter
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Historical National Air Lines and National Airlines Photo Gallery - click on image to enter
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Historical Pan American Airways System and Pan American World Airways Photo Gallery - click on image to enter
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1914 - Tony Jannus piloting the first commercial winged airline flight for the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line |
1914 - advertisement for St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line, the first commercial winged air service |
1917 - aircraft hangars at U. S. Naval Air Station Miami at Dinner Key, Miami |
1918 - Navy Curtiss AB-3 flying boats with Curtiss N-9's or R-9's in the background assigned to Naval Air Station Pensacola |
Late 1910's - U. S. Navy Curtiss AB-3 flying boats at an unknown Naval Air Station |
1918 - the Navy's first Aerial Photography class held at Naval Air Station Miami at Dinner Key |
1919 - the Curtiss NC-4, first aircraft to fly across the Atlantic |
November 1, 1920 - Aeromarine West Indies Airways Model 75 delivers the first airmail from Key West to Havana Harbor |
1921 - 7 years before Pan American Airways was founded, Miami had Aeromarine Airways serving Havana, Key West and Bimini |
1921 - Aeromarine West Indies Airways Model 75 "Balboa" taking off from the bay in front of Flagler's Royal Palm Hotel |
1920-1924 - Three Aeromarine Airways Miami-based pilots and two mechanics sitting on Aeromarine's converted Model 75 |
1920-1924 - Aeromarine Airways Model 75 "Cordeaux" with appropriately dressed passengers |
1920-1924 - bathing beauties posing on the Aeromarine Airways Model 75 (converted Navy Curtiss F5L) flying boat "Buckeye" |
1922 - Aeromarine Airways Model 75 flying boat "Columbus" |
1920-1924 - the wicker chairs in the rear passenger compartment onboard Aeromarine Airways Model 75 "Santa Maria" |
1922 - at least 5 Aeromarine Airways Model 75's moored in Biscayne Bay east of downtown Miami |
1920-1924 - the entrance to the dock for passengers boarding Aeromarine Airways flights at downtown Miami |
1920-1924 - Aeromarine Airways staff members dining on ice cream from an unclaimed flight shipment |
1922 - Aeromarine Airways Cuban airmail service |
1921 or 1922 - Doris Page and Harold D. Kantner with Curtiss F Triplane at abandoned NAS Dinner Key, Miami |
1920's? - Chalk's Flying Service aircraft on Biscayne Boulevard at the Port of Miami |
1920's - U. S. Navy bi-plane in the newly dug Miami Canal near Curtiss Airfield in Hialeah on the other side of the canal |
1924 - article about first aerial mapping of Miami with Andrew Heermance as pilot of the Curtiss aircraft |
1928 - Pan American World Airways' first flight from Havana to Miami first day cover to George T. Street |
1929 - Dornier DO-X Flying Boat in Biscayne Bay, Miami |
1929 - the U. S. Navy's 655 foot USS LOS ANGELES ZR-3 flying over Miami |
1930s - Chalk's Airlines Loening C-2C Air Yachts NC133-H and NC134-H along Biscayne Boulevard |
1932 - the Goodyear Blimp flying over County Causeway, Miami |
1933 - article about Charles Lindbergh and wife returning to the USA at Miami's Seaplane Base |
1933 - the U. S. Navy's 785-foot USS AKRON ZRS-4 flying over Miami |
1930's - two Goodyear blimps and either the Navy's USS AKRON or the USS MACON rigid airship over downtown Miami |
1934 - the Goodyear Blimp on Watson Island with the County Causeway and Port of Miami in the background |
1935 - Muster of officers and men at Coast Guard Air Station Miami at Dinner Key, Miami |
1935 - general muster at Coast Guard Air Station Dinner Key, Cocoanut Grove |
1935 - closeup of general muster at Coast Guard Air Station Dinner Key at Cocoanut Grove, Miami |
1930's - Air Guide for Miami, depicting airfields in Dade County at the time |
Late 1930's - early 1940's - U. S. Navy N3N "Yellow Peril" trainer biplanes from NAS Miami over Government Cut, Miami |
Late 1930's - early 1940's - U. S. Navy N3N trainer biplanes from NAS Miami passing by downtown Miami |
1941 - NAS Miami Northrop BT-1 torpedo bombers north of downtown Miami |
1941 - Navy dive bombers from NAS Miami at Opa-locka flying past downtown Miami |
1942 - BGEN H. Wooten, USAAF, BGEN Junius W. Jones, USAAF, Mr. John Paul Riddle and MGEN Walter R. Weaver, USAAF (story below) |
1940's - Embry-Riddle Technical School at the Coliseum in Coral Gables during World War II |
1940's - military aircraft maintenance during World War II inside the Coral Gables Coliseum |
1943 - wartime Embry-Riddle School of Aviation advertisement in the Miami Daily News |
1940's & 50's - The Aviation Building, formerly the Fritz Hotel, home of National Airlines and Embry-Riddle School of Aviation |
1940's - U. S. Navy enlisted air crew members posing with a Navy Martin PBM-5 Mariner bomber at NAS Key West Trumbo Point |
1945 - Army Air Corps pursuit planes over Miami |
1947 - workers installing aerial signage on the side of the Goodyear Blimp Ranger NC-1A at Watson Island, Miami |
Late 1940's - United Air Lines Air Mail label |
1951 - badge for Mike Ramis from Havana who participated in the Florida Air Pilots Association Miami Air Show |
Early 1950's - the Goodyear Blimp L-Ship Enterprise N3A on the northeast side of Watson Island |
1952 - a postcard depicting a Delta Air Lines DC-6 flying off of Miami Beach enroute to Atlanta, Cincinnati and Chicago |
Mid 1950's - Tan Airlines C-46 XH-TND offshore of Miami Beach before the Julia Tuttle Causeway was built to Miami Beach |
1955 - Ted Crownover's dad's Stinson in the front yard |
1958 - Ted Crownover with his dad's completed Stinson |
Late 1950s / Early 1960s - USAF F-104 Starfighters over Miami Beach |
1950's - Ellen M. Gilmore, owner and pilot, posing with a Sky Lark Bell 47 helicopter at Watson Island |
1960 - senior Eastern Air Lines captains Merle Moltrup and Jack Little decry the FAA's age 60 rule |
1960 - the Goodyear Blimp L-Ship Ranger N1A on Watson Island, Miami |
1960 - the Goodyear Blimp L-Ship Ranger N1A on Watson Island, Miami |
1962 - the Goodyear Blimp GZ-19 Mayflower N4A lifting off from Watson Island, Miami |
1963 - USCG HU-16 Albatross #CG-1315 taxiing up the ramp at Coast Guard Air Station Miami, Dinner Key |
1964 - USCG HH-52A Guardian #CG-1384 on the ramp at Air Station Miami at Dinner Key |
1960's - the Goodyear GZ-19A Blimp "Mayflower VI" N4A flying past downtown Miami |
1965 - Coast Guard HH-52A #1383 rescuing a surfer at South Beach after Hurricane Betsy |
1966 - TWA Skyliner article about the 1966 Interline Spring Festival on Miami Beach |
1967 - NASA/Air Force XB-70A Valkyrie #1 landing - not Miami-related |
1968 - a Dade County Port Authority new Jetport decal promoting the new airport in the Everglades |
Late 1960's - the Goodyear Blimp GZ-19 Mayflower N1A over Biscayne Bay |
Late 1960's - the Goodyear Blimp GZ-19 Mayflower N1A on Watson Island |
1970 - North Perry Airport in Broward County north of Miramar and west of the original Pembroke Pines |
1971 - Lockheed Constellation L-1049G mounted on top of the Oasis American gas station and gift shop on Tamiami Trail |
1970's - Lockheed Constellation L-1049G mounted on top of the Oasis American gas station and gift shop on Tamiami Trail |
Early 1970's - USCG HU-16E Albatross #CG-5218 from Air Station Miami at OPF performing a JATO takeoff in Biscayne Bay |
1972 - Delta stewardesses Susan Lowden (now Jacobs) from Miami and Hialeah, Debbie Booth and Cindy Rutherford at ATL airport |
1972 - 3 Delta stewardesses with Susan Lowden (now Jacobs) from Miami and Hialeah on the right side at ATL |
1972 - the fine employees of Goodyear Airship Operations and the GZ-19 Mayflower N1A |
1973 - Opa-locka Airport with Hialeah in the background |
1973 - AAT Airlines (American Air Taxi) DeHavilland DH.114 Heron N510FW taxiing accident |
1970's - a postcard featuring a Bell 47 helicopter operated by Miami Helicopter Service owned by the Riggs families |
1975 - the old MacArthur Causeway bridge, Watson Island, Government Cut and Port of Miami at Dodge Island |
1975 - the Watson Island heliport and Chalks seaplane ramp in the background |
1975 - landing at the Watson Island heliport with Dodge Island in the background |
1975 - the Watson Island heliport office and waiting area |
1975 - Sightseeing helicopter lifting off from Watson Island heliport |
1970's - ex-USN Lockheed XR6O-1 (R6V-1) Constitution N7673C on NW 135th Street, Opa-locka |
1970's - ex USN Lockheed XR6O-1 (R6V-1) Constitution N7673C on NW 135th Street, Opa-locka |
1976 - Chalk's International Airlines Mallard painted in Bicentennial colors at Watson Island |
Mid/late 1970's - Lockheed Constellation L-1049G mounted on top of the Oasis American gas station and gift shop on Tamiami Trail |
1977 - advertisement for the Blue Angels Air Show at Ft. Lauderdale Executive Airport March 26-27, 1977 |
1978 - the Goodyear Blimp GZ-19A N38A "Mayflower" during the last season of operations from Watson Island |
1978 - the Goodyear Blimp GZ-19A N38A "Mayflower" landing during the last season of operations at Watson Island |
September 2007 - the Goodyear Blimp N2A Spirit of Innovation taking off from Pompano Air Park |
2011 - Former Dade County Aviation Director Richard H. Judy passes away - Photo Gallery - click on image to enter
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AVIATION IN MIAMI - The First 100 Years Exhibit - a previous exhibit at HistoryMiami |
Information about the 2013 MIA Airfield Tour |
2013 - historic St. Petersburg's Albert Whitted Airport |
Information about the 2014 20th Annual Miami International Airport Airfield Tour |