Subject: Bob Hope Airport (Los Angeles County, Calif.) / Location: Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Aerial view of the crowd of spectators, estimated at 200,000, at the U.S. Army Air Corp birdmen aerial fighting force air show.
Date:: April 26, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Army Hawks Thrill Huge Crowd By War Mimicry: Daring Birdmen Swoop Through Breath-Taking Maneuvers as 200,000 Persons Watch." 27 Apr. 1930: A1.
Date:: April 26, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Will Rogers with 2 other men at the United Airport in Burbank. The sign above the door reads: "United Airports Company of California, LTD, United Aircraft & Transport Corporation."
Date:: [circa 1930-1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: From left to right, Phillips Petroleum Corporation pilot, Billy Parker, and Wiley Post pose upon arrival at Union Air Terminal in Burbank. Billy Parker dons a printed suit and holds a hat by his side. Wiley Post also sports a suit and wears an eye patch. Behind them, the fuselage of an airplane stretches across the image. At center, markings on the plane read, "Phillips 77 AVIATION," "[...]TROLE[U...]," and "[...]SVILLE OKL[...]." A hangar stands in the background along the right edge.
Date:: [circa December 8, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: U.S. Army air maneuvers show at United Airport in Burbank. In the air can be seen 21 airplanes flying in formations of three and six, and three planes taxiing down the runway. In the foreground are spectators and in the background the rest of the fleet of 135 airplanes from the U.S. Army aerial fighting force, provisional wing, can be seen in the background. Aircraft include, single-engine pursuit planes, bombers, and ground-strafing attack planes.
Date:: April 26, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Brigadier General William E. Gillmore, commanding officer of the Air Corps, with another officer and an unidentified civilian at Burbank Airport, possibly during the Army Air Circus.
Date:: April 26, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Portrait of engineer Tom Ward and pilot Joe Crosson in the Pacific Automotive Corp hangar at the Union Air Terminal after arriving in a plane transporting the bodies of Will Rogers and Wiley Post. Crosson brought the bodies of Rogers and Post out of the wilds of Alaska to Seattle.
Date:: August 19, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Spectators watch 12 U.S. Army biplanes, likely Curtiss Falcon two-seater attack planes, flying in formation over the airfield at United Airport in Burbank. [Known today as Bob Hope Airport]
Date:: April 26, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Aerial view of the crowd of spectators, estimated at 200,000, at the U.S. Army Air Corp birdmen aerial fighting force air show.
Date:: April 26, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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