CLARENCE O. PREST -1954

Clarence Prest, 1922 Clarence Prest standing by his bi-plane 'N-CACH' in a field near Whitehorse. Photo by Claude Tidd, from Yukon Archives Images Database

 

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES via email from Jack & Marilyn Bresson, 2-12-08      Clarence is a relative of mine on his wife's side (Bresson) We had a store at one time across the street from where Clarence built some of his airplanes in the old lemon packing house at the corner of Van Buren and Indiana in Arlington, California. I am interested in information about the things he did. One was flying under the bridge at Blythe California.

 

SOME KICK IN THE OLD BIRD YET writes C. O. Prest, who, last May 28, took his "Baby Pursuit" under his arm and did a 100 kilometer closed course at 100.8 m. p. h., exceeding the record of 86.7 m. p. h. set by Fauvel in France. The Prest job weighs but 430 pounds from The Early Birds, 1 August, 1930, Bulletin 6 courtesy of Steve Remington - CollectAir Editor's Note: Photos of the "Baby Pursuit" may be seen on the AeroFiles site.

 

Clarence Prest's bi-plane N-CACH Prest at Whitehorse 1922 [Aviator Clarence Prest and RCMP officer Claude Tidd standing by Prest's bi-plane 'N-CACH' in a field near Whitehorse.] This plane may be similar to the Polar Bear, which was destroyed in Prince Rupert, 1921 from Yukon Archives Images Database

 

ONLINE RESOURCES      If you search for "Clarence O. Prest" , using the Google search engine, (2-13-08), you will find about 7 links. Among the most helpful are the following.

 

CLARENCE PREST IN LAS VEGAS, 1920      You will find a very nice biography of Clarence on "The First 100 people" website of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. You can access the site by clicking on the title.

 

CLARENCE PREST ON THE AeroFiles Website      You will find an entry here with two nice photographs of his planes. You may access the site by clicking on the title.      You may want to use your "Find" function on "Prest" to locate the entry on the page.

 

Clarence O. Prest died in 1954 From The Early Birds of Aviation Roster of Members January 1, 1993   Editor's Note: If you have any more information on this Early Bird, please contact me. E-mail to Ralph Cooper   Back