GEORGE C. POMEROY

George Pomeroy, Date & Location Unknown (Source: SDAM)

 

George Pomeroy landed once at Santa Monica, on Friday, April 26, 1929 at 3:45PM. He carried a single, unidentified passenger in the Fairchild owned by B.G. Dahlberg that he identified as NC4770. According to the Davis-Monthan Register, Pomeroy passed through Tucson just a few days before carrying owner Dahlberg, so his passenger could have been Dahlberg that day, too. Pomeroy was the corporate pilot for Dahlberg, a sugar magnate.

A quick summary identifies the milestones in Pomeroy's aviation career(s). In 1913 he allegedly was a helper for Orville and Wilbur Wright. During WWI, he learned to fly with the Army Air Service in France. After the war, in 1924, he joined the Air Mail Service, flying between Omaha, NB and Cheyenne, WY. He flew the airmail from August 1924 to August 5, 1929. In 1930 he flew transport aircraft with Ludington Airlines, which eventually became Eastern Airlines, and inaugurated scheduled passenger service between Washington, D.C. and Newark, N.J. During WWII, he flew in Hawaii and the South Pacific for the Air Transport Command. After WWII, he became chief pilot of the Swiftlite Aircraft Corporation.

Photograph, left, is courtesy of the San Diego Aerospace Museum Flickr Stream (SDAM). It shows Pomeroy during the late 1920s when he flew the U.S. Airmail.

A more detailed biography for Pomeroy is at the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register Web site at the link. There you will find news articles and internal and external links to additional information about Pomeroy and his flying experiences.

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