Maureen O'Hara was an Irish and American actress and singer who became successful in Hollywood from the 1940s through to the 1960s. She was a natural redhead who was known for playing passionate but s
O'Hara in 1947
O'Hara with her mother, Marguerite FitzSimons, in 1948
O'Hara (right) with sisters Margot and Florrie in 1947
O'Hara in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Charles F. Blair Jr. was an American aviation pioneer who helped work out the routes and navigation techniques necessary for long-distance flights. He served as a reserve officer, early in his career
Maureen O'Hara
…industry in 1971, but returned 20 years later to appear with John Candy in Only the Lonely (1991). In the late 1970s, O'Hara helped run her third husband Charles F. Blair Jr.'s flying business in Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands, and edited a magazine, but later sold them to spend more time in Glengarriff in…
Cap. C. Blair's Mustang being refueled at Bardufoss Airport before taking off on the flight from Bardufoss to Fairbanks.
Charles Blair's Excalibur III on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (NASM)
NC58021, with which Blair helped found United States Overseas Airlines (USOA), in 1948 when it operated El Al's first flight
Associated Air Transport's first aircraft, Sikorsky VS-44 "Reykjavik"