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[[image: black and white cutout, close up photographs of what appear to be of the cast metal plates, a plaque with raised lettering, the early bird logo (the stylized EB owl figure with extended wings), and the early bird motto (THE INSIGNIA OF THE EARLY BIRD) that appear on the Early Bird Monument shown to the right, as follows]]
THIS BRONZE PROPELLER WAS CAST DIRECTLY FROM ONE OF THE WRIGHT BROTHERS' WOODEN PROPELLERS. TWO WERE USED TO PROPEL THE FIRST UNITED STATES MILITARY AEROPLANE, A 1909 WRIGHT. THE ORIGINAL WAS LOANED TO THE EARLY BIRDS BY THE SMITHSONIAN I

[[image: photograph of the Early Bird Monument showing the cast of the Wright Brothers' propeller and the plaques described above.]]

[[image below of the back of the monument]]

[[black and white cutout, close up photographs of what appear to be of the cast metal plates on the back of the Early Bird Monument: a shield and  a plaque with raised lettering as follows: Shield topped with the Early Bird logo: EARLY AVIATION HISTORY WAS  MADE
HERE WHEN THESE PIONEERS FLEW
POWERED AIRCRAFT TO AND FROM
THIS SITE BETWEEN 1909 -1916
[[two columns]]
[[left column]]
WILBUR WRIGHT
GLENN CURTIS
CHARLES K. HAMILTON
HARRY N. ATWOOD
HARRY M. JONES
HARALD KATNER
STEVE MACGORDON
[[/left column]]

[[right column]]
LINCOLN BEACHY
EUGENE ELY
HUGH A. ROBINSON
JAMES J. WARD
ALBERT S. HEINRICH
VICTOR CARLSTROM
RAYNAL C. BOLLING
RUTH B. LAW
[[/right column]]
[[/two columns]] 
FROM MAY 1916 TO MARCH 1917
MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNORS ISLAND
TRAINING CORPS FLIGHT TRAINED HERE

[[two columns]]
[[left column]]
CAPTAIN PHILIP A. CARROLL
COMMANDING
CHARLES REED
WILLIAM A. LARNED
FREDIERICK T. BLAKEMAN
STEDMAN S. HANKS
CORD MEYER
CHARLES D WIMAN
JAMES B. MILLER
SETH LOOW
[[/left column]]
[[right column]]
FILIP A. BJORKLUND
INSTRUCTOR
LAWRENC SPERRY
HOBART A. H. BAKER
AL STURTEVANT
EDWIN M. POST, JR.
WILLIAM WALTON
ALBERT B. GAINES, JR.
HOWARD G. LAPSLEY
JOHN M. L. RUTHERFURD
[[/right column]]
[[two columns]]

[[square plaque]]
DEDICATED DECEMBER 17, 1954
BY THE EARLY BIRDS
CLARENCE A. deGIERS, PRESIDENT

MILITARY PARTICIPATION DIRECTED BY
LT. GEN. WITHERS A. BURRESS
COMMANDING GENERAL, FIRST ARMY
COL. JOHN S ROOSMA
DEPUTY POST COMMANDER
GOVERNORS ISLAND, NEW YORK
[[/square plaque]]
[[/black and white cutout, close up photographs of what appear to be of the cast metal plates on the back of the Early Bird Monument]]