Air Museum of Minnesota Oral History Project: Interview with Gordon Newstrom

Titles: Air Museum of Minnesota Oral History Project: Interview with Gordon Newstrom (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Gordon Newstrom is manager of the Grand Rapids Minnesota airport, a position he has held since shortly after World War II. He learned to fly just before the war and spent the war training pilots. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Boyhood exposure to aircraft. Selling tickets for barnstormers. Learning to fly. Teaching flying to Navy cadets in Duluth and Albert Lea. Anecdotes about cadets at both places. Memories of other pilots of the time: Charley Curtis, Buck Simpson, Bill Berger, Roy Ives, Gene Fynbo, Ned Powers, and Vern Georgia. Working at a flight school in Coleraine. Improving the airport operation at Grand Rapids. Anecdotes about flying in and around Grand Rapids in the 1940s. Forest patrol and pipeline patrol work. Insect surveys.

Dates

• 1965 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Newstrom, Gordon
• interviewer: Holey, George
• interviewer: Holey, Anne M.

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 101
• Accession Number: AV1992.88.18

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Air Museum of Minnesota Oral History Project' <OH 101>

Quantity: 2 hours sound cassette 26 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 90 minutes length

Subjects

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