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Hospital, California, at age 85. He was survived by his wife and a sister.

Wiseman was not a licensed pilot but did become a member of the Early Birds of Aviation on August 17, 1968, the city of Petaluma unveiled a suitably inscribed monument to Fred J. Wiseman in Kenilworth Park during a public ceremony in his honor.

Flying pioneer Fred Wiseman was one of the true pioneers of the first decade of aviation. Self-taught, in an airplane that he had designed and helped to build, he became a safe and competent pilot entirely by his own hard word and courage American aviation history and historians of airmail must duly record him and other enterprising young men who had faith in the airplane and demonstrated their convictions at a time when flying was subject to ridicule.