MILITARY · HISTORICAL MARKER

First Military Flying School

Coronado, California
· (U.S. Naval Air Station, North Island)
Military
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The flat lands beyond have been part of aviation history since Glenn Curtis founded the first military flying school in America here on January 17, 1911. The Army operated Rockwell Field until January 31, 1939; the Navy commissioned the present air station on November 8, 1917.
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