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At College Park Airport, notable aviation milestones included Wilbur Wright instructing the first flying officers of the Signal Corps, U. S. Army in 1909; the first Army flying school being established there in 1911, along with the first bombsite tested from an aircraft; the first group cross-country flight originating there in 1912 with a destination of Chevy Chase, Maryland, as well as the first machine gun fired from an aircraft and the first radio message sent from an aircraft; the first flight of a helicopter made by Henry Berliner in 1922; and its role as one of the first points of origin for United States Air Mail.
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College Park, Maryland · United States
