Flyers' Club of America

The Flyers' Club of America was preliminarily launched at a banquet at Delmonico's in New York on 4 Dec. 1910. The charter members were from the Lambs Club (a theatrical organization); the Larchmont Yacht Club, the New York Yacht Club, the Racquet Club, and the Aero Club of America While members belonged to these other organizations, it was said that the club consisted of actors who were interested in aviation in a purely amateur sort of way. The Flyers' Club intended to keep a balloon of its own in a hangar on the aviation field at Pittsfield, Mass. Officers were to be elected at the next meeting. The club exhibited at the International Automobile and Aviation Show at Grand Central Palace in New York City in early January 1911.

At the first meeting, Leroy N. Taylor, Leo Stevens, George Gregory, William L. Stowe, and William J. Seidenburg were named the incorporators and they were expected to apply for a charter from New York State that week. Taylor was the primary organizer of the club. The nearly 60 charter members also included George Ade, Booth Tarkington, William Collier, Frank Daniels, Robert Hilliard, Col. James Elverson, and David Warfield. There were to be three classes of members, active, inactive, and pilots. A 56,000 cu. ft. balloon was being built by Stevens for the club and it was to be looked after by the Aero Club of Pittsfield from whose grounds flights would be made.

Sources

• 1910 NYT, 30 Nov. and 5 Dec.; 1911 Aircraft, 1 Jan.; 1911 NYT, 4 Jan.; 1911 Aircraft, 1 Feb.

Organization names	Flyers' Club of America
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Country	US
City	New York, New York
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Scope	Local, Special Interest
Started aero	1910
Ended aero
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