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For the Love of Flight:
George Brickerhoff... "Brinck" to his friends was a well-known aviator in the Washington area who took over operations at College Park Airport in 1928. He established the Brickerhoff Flying Service which offered flight training and charter flights and partnered with the University of Maryland to support the pilot instruction for the Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP) at the field.
Brickerhoff used every aviation publicity stunt he could think of to share his love of flying with the general public. He was often in the news as he hopped from airport to airport to play one hole of golf, or worked with local aviation groups to host an aviation scavenger hunt for prizes and trophies.
During WWII, College Park Airport, like many civilian airfields around the Capital, was taken over by the US Navy. Brickerhoff was forced to relocate his flying operations to Winchester VA. He was then lured to Georgia where he trained military pilots till wars end. He returned to operations at the Airport in 1946 as soon as the government again allowed civilian flying out the field. |