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First Military Flying School in America Landmark, Coronado, California
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The First Military Flying School in America Landmark in Coronado, California, marks the site where Glenn Curtiss founded his aviation school on January 17, 1911, on North Island, which was the Army's Rockwell Field. The location is within the Naval Air Station Coronado at the entrance to Gate 5, where the historical marker is situated in Sunset Park. The site is significant because it was the birthplace of U.S. naval aviation and the first Army flying school, training pilots for World War I and beyond.
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