Lester J. Maitland
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Lester James Maitland was an aviation pioneer and career officer in the United States Army Air Forces and its predecessors. Maitland began his career as a Reserve pilot in the U.S. Army Air Service du
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Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland (left) and Albert F. Hegenberger (right) at Wheeler Field, Hawaii, after the first non-stop flight from California to Hawaii in 1927.
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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
Lester J. Maitland
…sent to gunnery school at Taliaferro Field, Texas, but the war ended before he could be sent overseas. Following World War I, Maitland was assigned to McCook Field in Ohio from November 1918 to April 1919 as a pilot with the Testing Squadron. Maitland was transferred to Luke Field, Hawaii, and assigned to the 6th…
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