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College Park Airport, the Glossary

College Park Airport is a public airport located in the City of College Park, in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States.^[1]

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Aero Club of America

The Aero Club of America was a social club formed in 1905 by Charles Jasper Glidden and Augustus Post, among others, to promote aviation in America.

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Airmail

Airmail (or air mail) is a mail transport service branded and sold on the basis of at least one leg of its journey being by air.

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Airport

An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport.

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Aviation

Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry.

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Belmont Park is a thoroughbred horse racetrack in Elmont, New York, just east of New York City limits best known for hosting the Belmont Stakes, the final leg of the American Triple Crown. It was opened on May 4, 1905, and is one of the best well known racetracks in the United States. The original structure was demolished in 1963, and a second facility opened in 1968.

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Berliner Helicopter

The Berliner Helicopter was a series of experimental helicopters built by Henry Berliner between 1922 and 1925.

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Bernetta Adams Miller

Bernetta Adams Miller (January 11, 1884 – November 30, 1972) was a pioneering woman aviator who was the fifth licensed woman pilot in the United States.

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Biplane

A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two main wings stacked one above the other.

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Blériot XI

The Blériot XI is a French aircraft from the pioneer era of aviation.

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Boeing-Stearman Model 75

The Stearman (Boeing) Model 75 is an American biplane formerly used as a military trainer aircraft, of which at least 10,626 were built in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s.

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Cecil Peoli

Cecil Malcolm Peoli (October 13, 1894 – April 12, 1915) was an American aviator.

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Cessna 208 Caravan

The Cessna 208 Caravan is a utility aircraft produced by Cessna.

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Christmas Aeroplane Company

The Christmas Aeroplane Company was an American aircraft manufacturer.

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College Park, Maryland

College Park is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, located approximately from the northeast border of Washington, D.C. Its population was 34,740 at the 2020 United States census.

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College Park–University of Maryland station

College Park–University of Maryland station is a Washington Metro and MARC station located in College Park, Maryland, near the University of Maryland, College Park campus.

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Compass rose

A compass rose, sometimes called a wind rose, rose of the winds or compass star, is a figure on a compass, map, nautical chart, or monument used to display the orientation of the cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west) and their intermediate points.

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Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company

Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company (1909 – 1929) was an American aircraft manufacturer originally founded by Glenn Hammond Curtiss and Augustus Moore Herring in Hammondsport, New York.

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Curtiss JN Jenny

The Curtiss JN "Jenny" was a series of biplanes built by the Glenn Curtiss Aeroplane Company of Hammondsport, New York, later the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company.

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Curtiss Model D

The 1911 Curtiss Model D (or frequently "Curtiss Pusher") was an early United States pusher aircraft with the engine and propeller behind the pilot's seat.

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East Side (Manhattan)

East Side of Manhattan refers to the side of Manhattan which abuts the East River and faces Brooklyn and Queens, all in New York City.

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Engineering and Research Corporation

Engineering and Research Corporation (ERCO) was started by Henry Berliner in 1930.

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ERCO Ercoupe

The ERCO Ercoupe is an American low-wing monoplane aircraft that was first flown in 1937.

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Federal Aviation Administration

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is a U.S. federal government agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation which regulates civil aviation in the United States and surrounding international waters.

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Frank P. Lahm

Frank Purdy Lahm (November 17, 1877 – July 7, 1963) was an American aviation pioneer, the "nation's first military aviator", and a general officer in the United States Army Air Corps and Army Air Forces.

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Frank S. Scott

Frank S. Scott (2 December 188328 September 1912) was a United States Army corporal who died during his second enlistment, aged 28, in an aircraft crash.

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Frederick E. Humphreys

Frederick Erastus Humphreys (September 16, 1883 – January 20, 1941) was one of the original three military pilots trained by the Wright brothers and the first to fly solo.

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Gordon Bennett Trophy (aeroplanes)

The Gordon Bennett Aviation Trophy is an international airplane racing trophy that was awarded by James Gordon Bennett Jr., the American owner and publisher of the New York Herald newspaper.

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Helicopter

A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors.

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Henry Berliner

Henry Adler Berliner (December 13, 1895 – May 1, 1970) was a United States aircraft and helicopter pioneer.

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Henry H. Arnold

Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold (June 25, 1886 – January 15, 1950) was an American general officer holding the ranks of General of the Army and later, General of the Air Force.

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Lake Artemesia

Lake Artemesia is a man-made lake in Prince George's County, Maryland, located within the Lake Artemesia Natural Area in College Park and Berwyn Heights.

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List of airports in Maryland

This is a list of airports in Maryland (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location. College Park Airport and list of airports in Maryland are airports in Maryland.

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MARC Train

MARC (Maryland Area Rail Commuter) is a commuter rail system in the Washington–Baltimore area.

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Maryland

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.

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Maryland Route 201

Maryland Route 201 (MD 201) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission

The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC) is a bi-county agency that administers parks and planning in Montgomery and Prince George's counties in Maryland.

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Monocoupe 90

The Monocoupe 90 was a two-seat, light cabin airplane built by Donald A. Luscombe for Monocoupe Aircraft.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Skyports Seaplane Base

New York Skyports Inc.

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Paint Branch

Paint Branch is a tributaryU.S. Geological Survey.

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Paul Peck

Paul Peck (August 10, 1889 – September 11 or 12, 1912) was an early U.S. aviator.

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Paul W. Beck

Paul Ward Beck (1 December 18764 April 1922) was an officer in the United States Army, an aviation pioneer, and one of the first military pilots.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Prince George's County, Maryland

Prince George's County (often shortened to PG County or PG) is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland bordering the eastern portion of Washington, D.C. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the population was 967,201, making it the second-most populous county in Maryland, behind neighboring Montgomery County.

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Rex Smith Aeroplane Company

Rex Smith Aeroplane Company was an American aircraft manufacturer in College Park, Maryland.

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Riverdale Park, Maryland

Riverdale Park, formerly known and often referred to as Riverdale, is a semi-urban town in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, a suburb in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.

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September 11 attacks

The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.

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Southern Management Companies

Southern Management Companies is a privately owned property management company in the Mid-Atlantic United States.

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St. Louis

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Standards organization

A standards organization, standards body, standards developing organization (SDO), or standards setting organization (SSO) is an organization whose primary function is developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending, reissuing, interpreting, or otherwise contributing to the usefulness of technical standards to those who employ them.

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Tailwind Air

Tailwind Air LLC was a commuter scheduled air carrier and charter airline based in Westchester Airport and Sikorsky Memorial Airport.

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Taylor J-2

The Taylor J-2 Cub (later also known as the Piper J-2 Cub) is an American two-seat light aircraft that was designed and built by the Taylor Aircraft Company.

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Taylorcraft B

The Taylorcraft B is an American light, single-engine, high-wing general aviation monoplane, with two seats in side-by-side configuration, that was built by the Taylorcraft Aviation Corporation of Alliance, Ohio.

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Thomas D. Milling

Thomas DeWitt Milling (July 31, 1887 – November 26, 1960) was a pioneer of military aviation and a brigadier general in the U.S. Army Air Corps.

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Tony Jannus

Antony Habersack Jannus, more familiarly known as Tony Jannus (July 22, 1889 – October 12, 1916), was an early American pilot whose aerial exploits were widely publicized in aviation's pre-World War I period.

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Transportation Security Administration

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that has authority over the security of transportation systems within, and connecting to, the United States.

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U.S. Route 1 in Maryland

U.S. Route 1 (US 1) is the easternmost and longest of the major north–south routes of the older 1920s era United States Numbered Highway System, running from Key West, Florida, to Fort Kent, Maine.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Army Signal Corps

The United States Army Signal Corps (USASC) is a branch of the United States Army that creates and manages communications and information systems for the command and control of combined arms forces.

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United States Department of War

The United States Department of War, also called the War Department (and occasionally War Office in the early years), was the United States Cabinet department originally responsible for the operation and maintenance of the United States Army, also bearing responsibility for naval affairs until the establishment of the Navy Department in 1798, and for most land-based air forces until the creation of the Department of the Air Force on September 18, 1947.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Park_Airport

Also known as College Park Aviation Museum, College Park, Maryland airport.

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College Park Airport, the Glossary

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1909 establishments in Maryland

Airports established in 1909

Airports in Maryland

Airports on the National Register of Historic Places

Government buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland

Transportation buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland

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