![]() Dacia Harwood is events and marketing coordinator for the Goleta Valley Historical Society, Rancho La Patera and Stow House. Reminiscences of a Birdman will be available for purchase at the lecture or in the Rancho La Patera Museum Store, 304 N. In the year 1911 demonstrations of airplane mail service were made in India, England and the United States. Tickets are $10 for GVHS members and $15 general admission. PILOT EARL OVINGTON receiving the first pouch of air mail letters ever flown in the US, Septemfrom a Post Office official. ![]() Monday at the Goleta Valley Community Center, 5679 Hollister Ave. Virtually forgotten today, Earle Ovington lived a life of which most people can only dream.” In the words of the author, “He was a showman, a multienterprising entrepreneur, inventor and fearless pioneer aviator. In a compelling presentation, Campbell will chronicle the exploits of the legendary pilot and aviation pioneer. Campbell, author of Reminiscences of a Birdman. The Goleta Valley Historical Society invites you to learn more about Ovington at a lecture by Robert D. And another bit of trivia about Ovington: he was the first “commodore” of the Santa Barbara Yacht Club. It was their life’s work to preserve the restaurant and it remains in the family today. In 1941, Ovington’s wife, Adelaide, purchased Cold Spring Tavern, 5995 Stagecoach Road, for $2,000 and, along with her daughter, Audrey, founded and operated the tavern for more than 60 years. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. (Check out the historical marker on the front of the building). ![]() (Did you know that legendary pilots Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh were known to fly into Casa Loma Airfield?) One of Ovington’s hangers was moved to Old Town Goleta and today serves as Santa Cruz Market, 5757 Hollister Ave. He operated Casa Loma Airfield, one of the South Coast’s first flying fields, now the site of Santa Barbara Golf Club, 3500 McCaw Ave. In 1929, a one-way ticket from coast to coast cost 338 dollars. Ovington made history in 1911 as the first American air mail pilot, flying a load of 640 letters and 1,280 postcards in a mail bag. In 1911, Earl Ovington delivered the first piece of airmail by dropping a bag of mail overboard for the waiting postmaster to pick up. The organization was started in 1928 and accepted a membership of 598 pioneering aviators. Ovington, for whom the Santa Barbara Airport terminal is named, was an inventor and aviation pioneer who spent much of his influential life on the South Coast.īefore moving to Santa Barbara, Ovington’s diverse career included working for Thomas Edison as an X-ray technician, earning his electrical engineering degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and much more. Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith in 1911 Ralph Hazlett Upson circa 1913 Henry Roy Waite in 1912 Clyde Murvin Wood in 1911 Errol Henry Zistel in 1918 The Early Birds of Aviation is an organization devoted to the history of early pilots.
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