LEON VERSTRAETEN

PROF. LEON VERSTRAETEN LEERAAR IN DE AVIATIEK EN BESTUURDER DER FRANSCHE VLIEGSCHOOL SOMMER TE MOUZON op zijn Mouzon Tweedekker. Collection of Dave Lam, 12-4-06

 

GRANDE SEMAINE D'AVIATION DE ROUEN (19-20 Juin 1910) VERSTRAETEN (Belge), chef-pilote de l'école Sommer Collection of Jean-Pierre Lauwers

 

ONLINE RESOURCES      If you use the Google search engine on Leon Verstraeten, (8-23-03), you will find just one link. As of 12-4-06, the link is obsolete. However, you fill find about 57 other links, some of which are very helpful. THE PIONEERS      This website offers a resumé of the history of aviation in Belgium from 1794 to 1996. Included in the story is the following paragraph which mentions Leon Verstraeten.        "In 1910, the Aero-Club of Belgium organised a flying week in Brussels at the Stokkel Hippodrome. Eleven Belgian pilots were listed on the program : Pierre de Caters, Jan Olieslagers, Charles Van den Born, Joseph Christiaens, Jules Tyck, Jules de Laminne, Nicolas Kinet, Alphonse de Ridder, Leon Verstraeten, Joseph d'Hespel, and Alfred Lanser.      Olieslagers established a new world record flying at a height of 1,524 metres."

 

I don't know the dates of his birth or death.

 

Editor's Note: If you have any information on this pioneer aviator please contact me. E-mail to Ralph Cooper

 

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