Charles Keeney Hamilton

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Charles Keeney Hamilton (b. 1885) was an aviator from New Britain, Connecticut.

At age 18 he started flying balloons at the circus. Three years later he flew dirigibles with Roy Knabenshue. In 1909 he flew with Glenn Curtiss.[1]

Hamilton appeared at the Dominguez Field exhibition in 1910, where he flew across the border to Tijuana and back.[2]

References

  1. Pauley, 2009, p. 65.
  2. Marco R. Newmark, "The Aviation Meet of 1910", The Quarterly: Historical Society of Southern California 28(3), September 1946.