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George W. Beatty www.earlyaviators.com/ebeatty.htm

undeadsinatra: Thanks for the information! We’ll update the description.

Photo taken Nassau Boulevard Aerodrome International Aviation Meet. (Garden City, Long Island, New York) September 23,1911- October 1,1911. Ellyson, whose name appears on one of the hangars, was at this Airmeet and was the only time he was at the Nassau Boulevard Aerodrome. George W. Beatty Aero Club of America Pilot#41 Wright B biplane

www.earlyaviators.com/ebeatty.htm www.earlyaviators.com/ewelsh.htm

I started a Wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_William_Beatty Here is his 1915 passport application: Here is his 1942 WWII draft registration: And I started one for Welsh: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_L._Welsh

undeadsinatra and Richard Arthur Norton: Thanks for the detailed background information on these two early aviators. We will add more detail to the record when we update.

Al L. Welsh Instructor / Test / Demonstration Pilot for Wright Brothers Aero Club of America Pilot# 23 killed College Park, Maryland June 11,1912 George W. Beatty Aero Club of America Pilot# 41 August 4, 1911 Beatty obtained training from Welsh at the Wright School , Nassau Boulevard Aerodrome , Garden City, Long Island, New York 1911

As near as I can tell, this is the chassis of a stripped down REO Model B runabout with a superstructure of unpainted (and unpadded) framed 2x4s. compare:

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