Albert Francis Hegenberger
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Albert Francis Hegenberger was a major general in the United States Air Force and a pioneering aviator who set a flight distance record with Lester J. Maitland, completing the first transpacific fligh
Hegenberger in 1935
Lt. Albert Francis Hegenberger
Bird of Paradise crewmen Lt. Lester J. Maitland and Hegenberger are congratulated after landing at Wheeler Field.
Brig. Gen. Albert F. Hegenberger
McCook Field
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McCook Field was an airfield and aviation experimentation station in Dayton, Ohio, United States. It was operated by the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps and its successor the United States Army Ai
Albert Francis Hegenberger
…course in aeronautical engineering. Upon completing his technical training in February 1919, Hegenberger became chief of the Instrument Branch at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio. He was commissioned a first lieutenant, Air Service, in the Regular Army July 1, 1920, and subsequently served as assistant engineer of…
Major Rudolph W. Schroeder(de) set a 30,900 foot two-man altitude record in a Packard-Le Peré LUSAC-11 Biplane at McCook Field, 24 September 1919