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HUBBARD, EDDIE

BIRTH AND DEATH - Born 1889, San Francisco.

EDUCATION

EXPERIENCE & ACTIVITIES

He learned to fly in 1912.  Three years later he established a barnstorming base in Seattle and in 1916 and 1917 served as an army instructor at Rockwell Field.
Near the end of 1917, he returned to Seattle to become test pilot for Boeing Airplane Co.  The first flight from Vancouver to Seattle on March 3, 1919 was followed on Oct. 15, 1920 by the first contract air mail flight from Seattle to Victoria.  He made the first night air mail flight, left Vancouver with 300 pounds of mail at 7:15 P.M., arrived at Seattle 8:30 P.M.  In 1927, the Post Office Dep't turned over its air mail to contractors.  Boeing Air Transport took over Chicago-San Francisco route.  He was Vice  President in charge of operations.

MARRIED

RESIDENCE

SOURCE:  Aero Digest
         June 1932
         p. 48