This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/20/2021
[AVIATION]. Trio of early exhibition flying photographs. Circa 1910s. Three large photographs of exhibition fliers, among them Katherine Stinson. Largest, 11 x 14”. Photographs by Edwin Leveck and W.V. Ring. Some sunning. Overall condition very good. Includes June 18, 1927 issue of The Reel Journal with a feature on the 1926 film Pirates of the Sky, one of the first motion pictures to feature footage of stunt flying. In 1912 Katherine Stinson became the fourth woman in the United States to earn the FAI pilot’s certificate. In succeeding years she would become the first female pilot employed by the US Postal Service and the first pilot to ever fly at night. Along with her mother, she incorporated the Stinson Aviation Company in 1913 and would later establish the Stinson Municipal Airport and the Stinson School of Flying. Throughout the decade she set numerous records, among them being the first female pilot to fly to China and Japan. Tuberculosis forced her early retirement in 1920. In 2019 she was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame.