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Listen: The Assorted Selections ProgramView of plane being raffled off during grand opening of Dale Mabry Field in Tallahassee, Florida.
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Series/Collection number: M82- 78, Dale Mabry Airfield and Jackson Bluff Hydroplant opening photographs, 1927-1930
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Dale Mabry Field was named in honor of Tallahassee native Army Captain Dale Mabry, killed while commanding the Army semi-rigid airship Roma on February 21, 1922, which crashed at Norfolk, Virginia.
Accompanying note: "Waco 10 plane raffled off won by Hutch Gibson".
Sign on plane reads, "This plane comes ? free NOV 12, 1929 by Claude Sauls Post of the American Legion TICKETS $1.00 for sale here".
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