Aircraft Club of Peoria
The Air Craft (Aircraft) Club of Peoria or Peoria Aircraft Club was organized 4 May 1909 at a meeting at the Creve Coeur Club where it was decided to engage in the pursuit of aeronautics with an intention to start an interesting in ballooning first and then to take up flying machines. The club's balloon Peoria was reported to have won a balloon endurance race in August 1909.
Initial officers elected were Eugene Brown, president; Harold Plowe, vice president; and Leslie Lord, secretary and treasurer. Charter members numbered 12 and it appeared all were interested in studying the science of the air. The club was invited to enter a balloon in the August 1910 Harvard-Boston Meet.
Affiliated with ACA in 1910 or earlier.
Sources
- 5 Aeronautics (NYC) 38 (1909); 1909 NYT, Aug. 21; ACA Annuals (1910-1917, 1919); 1910 Aircraft, 1 July; 1910 Boston Daily Globe, 13, 14, & 16 Aug.; 1911 NYT 16 May; 2:11 Flying 34 (1913); 5 Flying 250 (1916); 6 Flying 498 (1917); 8 Flying 549 (1919); 9 Flying 50 (1920)
- Goodyear (1919), p. 11
- Dir1920
| Organization names | Aircraft Club of Peoria : Air Craft Club of Peoria : Peoria Aircraft Club |
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| Entity type | |
| Country | US |
| City | Peoria, Illinois |
| Affiliated with | ACA |
| Scope | Local |
| Started aero | 1909 |
| Ended aero | 1920 or later |
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- Address: no fixed address (1910-1919)
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