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Hawthorne Flying School (Beverly "Bevo" Howard) Collection, 1943-1960   Creator:  Howard, Beverly E. "Bevo," 1914-1971 Title:  Hawthorne Flying School (Beverly "Bevo" Howard) Collection, 1943-1960 Phy. Description:  3.13 cubic feet (1 slim legal document box) (1 slim letter document box) (3 legal document boxes) (3 letter document boxes) (1 flatbox) Bio / His Notes:  Beverly "Bevo" Howard (1914-1971) was an aviation promoter and aerobatic pilot. He soloed in 1931 at age 16 and, in 1932, joined Hawthorne Aviation as a line boy. By 1936 he was the President of Hawthorne and joined Eastern Air Lines (1936-38), at 21 the youngest air line pilot in the United States. In the 1940s and 1950s the Hawthorne Aviation Schools trained approximately ten thousand pilots from thirty-two countries, including military pilots from the United States, France, and Pakistan. Best known as a stunt pilot, Howard was the first to perform an outside loop in a light aircraft (1938), succeeding in a 37 1/2 horse power Piper Cub. He won the National Lightplane Aerobatic Championship for three years in a row (1939, 1940, 1941) and the International Aerobatic Championship three times (all classes 1946, 1947, 1949; second place 1948, 1950). While flying at a show in Greenville, NC, on October 17, 1971, Howard had a fatal accident. Summary:  This collection contains material primarily relating to the Hawthorne Flying Schools. It consists of class books from the Air Force cadets that were trained at Hawthorne facilities in North and South Carolina, a scrapbook of the 1943-45 issues of Hawthorne Prop Wash, the company newsletter, and photos used in Prop Wash. Restrictions:  No restrictions on access Subject-Topical:  Aeronautics Aeronautics, Commercial -- United States Flight training Aeronautics -- Exhibitions Periodicals Subject-Name:  Howard, Beverly E. "Bevo," 1914-1971 Hawthorne Flying Schools Form / Genre:  Photographs Scrapbooks Repository Loc:  National Air and Space Museum, Archives Division, MRC 322, Washington, DC, 20560 Local Number:  XXXX-0414 Item information Repository Call No.   National Air & Space Museum Archives XXXX-0414 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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