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PILOT STORIES: Burnside, Frank H.

Air Mail Service Began: July 17, 1923
Air Mail Service Ended: August 31, 1927
Total Hours Flown: 1479.10
Total Miles Flown: 147,885
Assignment: Maywood, Illinois
  September 1, 1926 – Cleveland, Ohio

Frank Burnside fell in love with flying in 1910, when he first caught sight of an airplane at a county fair. He was a test pilot, flight instructor and barnstormer as well as an airmail pilot.

 
 
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(top left) Forced landing report, September 19, 1926

(bottom right) Burnside
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