Crowds of people on the beach at Eastbourne, watching Mr Fowler in his water plane prior to take-off

Date:
Aug 1913
Location:
Eastbourne, East Sussex
Reference:
OP09800
Type:
Photograph (Postcard - Photographic)
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Description

Frederick B Fowler established the Eastbourne School of Flying in 1911 at an airfield on Willingdon Levels near Eastbourne. The airfield was operated by the Eastbourne Aviation Company, who owned the plane shown in this photograph.

Content

This is part of the Series: RBO01/40 Early Photographic Print Collection: East Sussex; within the Collection: RBO01 Early Photographic Print Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Vieler, R W

Keywords

Air Transport, People