BYRON Q. JONES
-1959
  
 
Byron Q. Jones
  
 
"Twenty-five Years Ago Today"

     January 16, 1915. Lieutenant B. Q. Jones (Martin tractor) made NEW DURATION RECORD of 8:53:00 in San Diego
from CHIRP - JULY 1940- DEARBORN MICH. - NUMBER 27
courtesy of Steve Remington - CollectAir
  

 
 
FIRST FLIGHT FROM SELFRIDGE, 1917

     Capt. Byron Q. Jones, Selfridge's first Base Commander, made the first flight from Selfridge in a Curtiss JN4-D biplane on July 8, 1917, seven days after the field was activated as a military installation. On July 16, 1917, three months after World War I had started, actual pilot training began at Selfridge.
From History of Selfridge Air National Guard
 

 
 
 
 
Byron Q. Jones died in 1959
From The Early Birds of Aviation ROSTER, 1996
 
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