Correspondence, 1931-45

File — Box: 25, Folder: 1-21

Identifier: V

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series: The Utah Pacific Airways, organized by Dean Brimhall and Robert H. Hinckley in 1926, was located in Ogden, Utah. At first the organization represented Beechcraft, but later it became a distributor of the Curtiss-Wright Company. It was the largest organization of its kind in the Rocky Mountain States. Brimhall served as president of this company from 1926-34. As president he helped promote the first aviation census of wild game, and directed the first experiments of the use of airplanes for the control of forest fires. Another interest of Brimhall's was safety. Safety practices he established were so successful that during six years of training hundreds of pilots, transporting charter passengers, and conducting experiments for government agencies, not one pilot or passenger was killed or injured.

Dates

1931-45

Conditions Governing Access

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