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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.B1263.0196]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Combat readiness, his model plane is checked by Ray Stone, Bethany, as he prepares to enter "combat" and "rat race" phases of third annual Sooner State Model Aviation Contest Saturday in field near NW 128 and Western."
Date: August 13, 1965
Creator: Wood, Tony
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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