Keywords: plane
Item 11496
Rabbet plane with moving fillister, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Littleton Media: Wood
Item 11493
No. 55 Stanley Combination plane, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1950 Location: Littleton Media: Steel, wood
Item 86139
Mill, Browns Wharf, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: F E Irvin Lumber Company Use: Mill - Planing
Item 53864
281 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Richardson Wharf Company Use: Garage
Exhibit
Following his historic flight across the Atlantic in May 1927, aviator Charles Lindbergh commenced a tour across America, greeted by cheering crowds at every stop. He was a day late for his speaking engagement in Portland, due to foggy conditions. Elise Fellows White wrote in her diary about seeing Lindbergh and his plane.
Exhibit
A Parade, an Airplane and Two Weddings
Two couples, a parade from downtown Caribou to the airfield, and two airplane flights were the scene in 1930 when the couples each took off in a single-engine plane to tie the knot high over Aroostook County.
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - Roger Weatherbee of Lincoln in his P-51 H fighter plane, 1946
"Roger and his P-51 plane has been talked about since that momentous day and now a model of this plane, upside down, hangs in a corner of a room in…"
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Lockheed 10A, Presque Isle, 1940
"This was the same model plane as was flown by Amelia Earhart. The photo was taken in August 1940, just before the airfield became an Army Air Base…"
Story
Protesters spit on me as a Vietnam Veteran
by Joseph Rocque Jr.
I will never forget the horror of seeing all the protestors greeting my plane returning from Vietnam
Story
Welcome home Sgt. Cunningham
by Donald C Cunningham
It was great to be back in Maine.
