LH0270 Airplane crash, looking northwest
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Types
- Postcards
- Photographs
- Description
- Black and white postcard with an image of a bi-plane that crashed into the buildings at the 4 corners in Oshawa, just west of intersection of King and Simcoe. Visible is E. L. Vickery Barber shop and H. A. Porter.
- Notes
- A JN-4, attempting a forced landing on Oshawa's main street on 22 April 1918, became entangled with telephone wires and pinned near the top of a store front where it remained suspended for several hours. The uninjured pilot, Cadet Weiss, was part of an ambitious flight training program initiated by the Royal Flying Corps to train Canadians to fly during World War I.
- Date of Original
- April 22, 1918
- Dimensions
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Width: 14 cm
Height: 9 cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- LH0270
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.90012 Longitude: -78.84957
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- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian law. No restrictions on use.
- Terms of Use
- please credit Oshawa Public Libraries, Local History Collection
- Contact
- Oshawa Public LibrariesEmail:nadams@oshawalibrary.on.ca
Website:
Agency street/mail address:
Nicole Adams, Local History and Genealogy Librarian
65 Bagot Street
Oshawa, ON L1H 1N2
905-579-6111 EXT 5253
