Pearson Fields standing aviation history to be recognized

Sep 7
06:59

2012

Ramyasadasivam

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The strange-looking airplane and its pantomiming pilot certainly made for an interesting sight, Harry Lindbo said.

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But historic?

"It wasn't that big a deal to us at the time," he said.

That was just over 75 years ago, Pearson Fields standing aviation history to be recognized Articles when Harry, his brother Ole Lindbo and a friend of theirs met three Soviet aviators at Pearson Field.

The first transpolar flight is just one of the events that has earned the Vancouver airport the designation of Historic Aerospace Site.

Pearson joins 60 other sites that have been honored by a program to preserve accomplishments in aviation and aerospace.

Flight School

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics will be part of a ceremony marking the honor at 2 p.m. Saturday at Pearson Air Museum, 1115 E. Fifth St. The event is free and open to the public.

Aviation Colleges

For a while, local aviation boosters billed Pearson as the oldest continuously operating airport in America. But it isn't the oldest, said Laureano Mier, manager of the air museum, which is adjacent to the airfield.

Pearson is one of America's oldest airports, however, and it is the oldest in the Pacific Northwest. In more than a century of aviation, Pearson has been part of enough aviation milestones to rate the historic designation, Mier said.

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