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[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0584]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The state fire marshal Wednesday launched a full scale arson investigation into two mysterious fires in the last five days that destroyed two airplanes at a private airport near Moore."
Date: August 18, 1956
Creator: Winford, Wesley
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0582]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This large crater and one smaller one show the force with which a jet fighter plane crashed Monday afternoon five miles southwest of Lindsay, narrowly missing a farm home."
Date: August 9, 1955
Creator: Rhaodes, Charles
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0707]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Flipped flyer and his wife suffered only minor scratches Saturday when their light airplane came to rest upside-down at the Yukon airstrip west of Oklahoma City's Lake Overholser."
Date: August 14, 1965
Creator: Crowder, Russ
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0051.0355]

Description: A group of people looking an airplane that sets with its propeller in the dirt and its tail in the sky. One man is peering into the cockpit. Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A LANDING."
Date: August 21, 1969
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0587]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Spectators view the wreckage of a light passenger plane which crashed and burned in a Beaver county, Okla., pasture Saturday night, taking the lives of four Oklahoma Panhandle men."
Date: August 10, 1955
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0567]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An air force F-100-I fighter plane burst into flames and crashed on Fort Sill's west range Friday while practicing for an air, artillery and infantry demonstration which had been planned Saturday."
Date: August 23, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0485]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A rescue-man looks over the wreckage of a twin-engine Beech Baron that crashed short of Knoxville's McGhee Tyson Airport Thursday, seriously injuring all fire persons aboard. They were identified as pilot John N. Banks, 44, of Malvern, Ark., his wife Margaret, 44, their son, John N. Banks Jr.,20, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred G. Fox, both 68, of Cairo. Ill."
Date: August 27, 1971
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0051.0257]

Description: Daytime photo of plane wreck with an ambulance and firemen on scene. Officials inspect wreckage in a city area. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Members of the Tulsa Fire Department and emergency workers inspect wreckage of a plane that crashed into a divided residential street in the neighborhood near the Tulsa International Airport. The two people in the plane were killed."
Date: August 13, 1982
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0577]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Eighteen scorched acres of airport grass and a metal plane melted down to its frame were all that was left Saturday from a mysterious attempt at a moonlight flight between here and Norman Friday night."
Date: August 18, 1956
Creator: Winford, Wesley
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0930]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Searching wreckage, a Boston fire fighter inspects the remains of a Delta Airlines DC-9 in which 88 passengers were killed when the plane crashed during landing at Logan International Airport in Boston Tuesday."
Date: August 1, 1973
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0051.0356]

Description: An airplane setting on one wheel and its propeller. The cabin door on the pilot's side is open. The windshield is in tact and three bystanders are looking through it. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Plane Takes Punch on Nose."
Date: August 21, 1969
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0635]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "THREE DIED in crash of this plane just seconds after takeoff at the Albany, Ore., airport. Dead are: Gerald Borstad, 48, Bernie Prinsen, 55, and Ron Scott, 22, who were trapped inside the burning craft."
Date: August 22, 1967
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0051.0185]

Description: Officials approaching a military plane to find out what when wrong. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "WHY? Military Air Transport Service Wednesday wanted to know why this C-97 had landing gear troubles Tuesday threatening the lives of the six-man crew. The pilot executed what the Air Force called "a beautiful landing" in spite of the difficulty. The crew walked away unharmed. Tinker`s crash crews had spread foam on the runways in an attempt t… more
Date: August 9, 1961
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0583]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Eighteen scorched acres of airport grass and a metal plane melted down to its frame were all that was left Saturday from a mysterious attempt at a moonlight flight between here and Norman Friday night."
Date: August 18, 1956
Creator: Winford, Wesley
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0503]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A navy jet fighter plane crashed and burned in a hilly, wooded are south of Draper Lake Tuesday afternoon, seconds after its pilot succesfully ejected. The pilot has been attempting to land at Tinker Air Force Base, due north of the crash scene. He had told the Tinker tower he was experiencing engine trouble, and was directed by the tower operator to the uninhabited area where the plane fell. Marine Capt. Alec Gill… more
Date: August 1, 1967
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0502]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of a crashed plane that has painted name Navy and numbers shown, the woods surrounding, a fireman on the backside left, a man in a suit on the backside right, and more.)"
Date: August 1, 1967
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Brush Control

Description: Photograph of looking east on oak and blackjack timber sprayed by airplane with 2-4-5-T. This area was sprayed in May, 1957 and a good kill is showing. This area has been deferred from grazing and the grass is making good growth.
Date: August 4, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[2012.201.B0051.0184]

Description: Military plane crash landing at Tinker Air Force Base. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Plane Flies Here for Crash Landing. A Tennessee Air National Guard C-97 transport crash landed at Tinker Air Force Base Tuesday. The six-man crew scrambled safely out of the plane after it stopped skidding along one of the field`s secondary runways. Maj. John L. Wade, 38, Murfreesboro, Tenn., commanded the plane that landed on the runway, partially covered… more
Date: August 9, 1961
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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