Charles Franklin Niles

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Charles Franklin Niles (1888-1916) was an early aviator having been taught by Glenn Curtiss in 1913. It was stated in his obituary that he was the first to fly around the Statue of Liberty, and that he served as an aviator in the 1910–1920 Mexican Revolution. On June 25, 1916, while flying a loop maneuver in his Moisant monoplane at the Oshkosh, Wisconsin fairgrounds a wing collapsed and he crashed. He died of his injuries the next day. A witness to the crash was cartoonist Robert Osborn. rdf:langString
rdf:langString Charles Franklin Niles
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rdf:langString New York State
xsd:date 1888-10-06
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rdf:langString Furanceville Cemetery, Wayne County New York state
xsd:date 1888-10-06
xsd:date 1916-06-26
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rdf:langString Lucille Goddard
rdf:langString Charles Franklin Niles (1888-1916) was an early aviator having been taught by Glenn Curtiss in 1913. It was stated in his obituary that he was the first to fly around the Statue of Liberty, and that he served as an aviator in the 1910–1920 Mexican Revolution. On June 25, 1916, while flying a loop maneuver in his Moisant monoplane at the Oshkosh, Wisconsin fairgrounds a wing collapsed and he crashed. He died of his injuries the next day. A witness to the crash was cartoonist Robert Osborn.
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