Do not forget to tell about James Herman Banning- the first African-American to receive a pilot's license from the Dept of Commerce.
He and another man were the first black pilots to fly coast to coast as well.
Died in San Diego when an airport operator decided that he shouldnt be the pilot since he wasn't white and had a less-qualified and less-experienced white man take the reigns of the plane... it crashed.
(there is no trace in Ames that Banning ever lived here... despite the fact that his plane was the Miss Ames and he got his pilot's license while he was running a mechanic's shop in town.)
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