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Speedy Plane Wins Him Another Award

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Day
22
Month
December
Year
1974
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He Claims Another Plane Mark

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Day
4
Month
July
Year
1975
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U-M Man's Flight Mark Saluted

U-M Man's Flight Mark Saluted image
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Day
2
Month
July
Year
1976
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Lesher, Edgar J.

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Day
22
Month
May
Year
1998
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Ed Lesher In His Experimental "Teal" Airplane, May 1997 Photographer: John M. Galloway

Ed Lesher In His Experimental "Teal" Airplane, May 1997 image
Year:
1997
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, March 31, 1997
Caption:
Ed Lesher sits in his plane, Teal, which he has flown to seven world records. Behind him is Nomad, the first plane he built.

Dolph Funeral Home Employees Load A Body Onto A Plane At Ann Arbor Airport, November 1946

Dolph Funeral Home Employees Load A Body Onto A Plane At Ann Arbor Airport, November 1946 image
Year:
1946
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, November 7, 1946
Caption:
FLYING HEARSE: A forward-looking Benton Harbor mortician, when called to pick up the body of a deceased man in Ann Arbor, dispatched his airplane instead of a hearse or ambulance for the task. Shown above as it prepared to take off from the Ann Arbor airport is the twin-engined plane of the Dean Mortuary of Benton Harbor. Helping place the body in the craft are Theodore A. Hoffman, (center, with back to camera), assistant manager of the Dolph funeral home of Ann Arbor, and Herbert Kerkhoff, right, a helper at Dolph's.

Wreckage Of Parked Plane Blown Into Tree By Storm, May 1962 Photographer: Schairer

Wreckage Of Parked Plane Blown Into Tree By Storm, May 1962 image
Year:
1962
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, May 1, 1962
Caption:
'NESTING' AIRPLANE: Fierce winds deposited this smashed airplane in a tree on the David Potter farm at 8684 McKean Rd. just northeast of Willis in Augusta township. The plane, tethered near a landing strip on the Potter property, is owned by Ballard Runyon, jr., of nearby 9280 Macey Rd. It was valued at $4,300. Another plane tethered nearby escaped damage from the freakish winds.