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1956 - 2026, Celebrating 70 Years of Service


This Day in History:
November 5, 1926

Adolph Backstrum becomes the first person to have his commercial pilot’s license suspended. Massachusetts Registrar of Motor Vehicles Frank Goodwin acts after Backstrum is found guilty of flying low over the football crowds leaving the Harvard Stadium in a lighted plane advertising stunt.