Aviation History: James Felts Traditional Cache
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Aviation History: James Felts
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Aviation History: James Felts
Lieutenant James Buell Felts (1898-1927) – Lt. Felts was the son of a prominent apple orchardist in the Spokane Valley and one of Spokane’s earliest aviators. He enlisted in the Army while still a teenager in 1916 and logged 85 hours as a pilot in World War I.
Upon returning home after the war he became the publisher of the Spokane Valley Herald and continued to serve as a second lieutenant in the air squadron of the local Washington Army National Guard.
In May 1927 he was taking one of his routine training flights from Spokane’s main airport, then known as Parkwater Field, when his engine stalled. Witnesses reported that the plane tumbled out of the sky falling 150 feet to the ground, killing Felts and his passenger, E. E. Baker, a newspaper advertising man from Chicago. Felts, 28, left a young widow and a 2-month-old baby.
Just four months later, in September 1927, Parkwater Field was renamed Felts Field “in memory of one of the gallant officers of the 41st Division Air Service,” in the words of a general at the dedication ceremony. Today, still known as Felts Field, it is Spokane’s general aviation airport.
The crash took place on May 29, 1927 – the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, 85 years ago this weekend.
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