Émile Dubonnet was a French balloonist active from 1908 to 1913. He participated in the 1908, 1909, and 1911 Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning and was a member of the Aéro-Club de France. He won the La
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Port-Aviation was an airfield in the commune of Viry-Châtillon in Seine-et-Oise, France. It operated as a popular air racing and aviation exhibition venue and hosted civilian flight schools from its o
Émile Dubonnet
…1912-1913. Dubonnet was born on 18 October 1883 in Paris to a winemaker. In 1910 he flew over Paris in his Tellier brothers aircraft. He started from Port-Aviation ("Juvisy Airfield") at Viry-Châtillon and made a landing at Bois de Boulogne. Dubonnet also helped form the first professional baseball league in France…
The Grande Quinzaine de Paris at Port-Aviation in October 1909.
Charles de Lambert in his Wright Model A in October 1909.
The last surviving building from the airfield, seen on 2 September 2009, served as a hotel and restaurant, and was the officers', and later the noncommissioned officers', mess during World War I.
Btv 1b 8433368f p 044 Blériot à la fête de Port Aviation, dimanche 4 juillet 1909