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Student fliers with Piper J-3s under the Civilian Pilot Training Program. Congressional Airport. Rockville, Maryland. The Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP) was a flight training program (1938–1944) sponsored by the United States government with the stated purpose of increasing the number of civilian pilots, though having a clear impact on military preparedness.
Hazel Jane Raines (April 21, 1916 – September 4, 1956) was an American pioneer aviator and flight instructor with the Civilian Pilot Training Program.During World War II, she was part of the first group of United States women to fly military aircraft, which they did in a war zone for the civilian British Air Transport Auxiliary.
Rose Agnes Rolls Cousins (March 26, 1920 – July 30, 2006) was an aviator from Fairmont, West Virginia. She became the first African American woman to become a solo pilot in the Civilian Pilot Training Program.
Willa Beatrice Brown (January 22, 1906 – July 18, 1992) was an American aviator, lobbyist, teacher, and civil rights activist. [1] She was the first African American woman to earn a pilot's license in the United States, [2] the first African American woman to run for the United States Congress, first African American officer in the Civil Air Patrol, and first woman in the U.S. to have both a ...
This was the Civilian Pilot Training Program. Moseley founded Cal Aero Academy in Chino, California, and Polaris Flight Academy in Lancaster, California, in 1941, prior to America's entry in World War II, and Mira Loma Flight Academy in Oxnard, California. [2] [4] Royal Air Force and Eagle Squadron personnel trained at Polaris under Lend Lease.
The 63rd Army Air Forces Contract Pilot School is located at the Douglas Municipal Airport in Coffee County, Georgia. During World War II, it was part of the Civilian Pilot Training Act of 1939, to train civilian pilots to serve as contract labor in an auxiliary capacity for the military. The program lasted until 1944, during which 250,000 men ...
Competitive swimmer, aviator. Known for. Last surviving participant of the 1936 Summer Olympics, co-founder and director of Bates Aeronautics Program at Harvey Mudd College. Height. 5 ft 4.5 in (164 cm) Iris Cummings (born December 21, 1920), also known by her married name Iris Critchell, is an American aviator and former competition swimmer ...
still in service. Primary user. private pilot owners and aero clubs. Produced. 1936-1941. Number built. 476 [1] The Porterfield Collegiate is an American -built two-seat training and touring monoplane built by the Porterfield Aircraft Corporation of Kansas City.