"DAVE GEE" wrote in news:104g5034eb2o686
@corp.supernews.com:

Hi group:

Can anyone here point me to a page that will tell me who
Naval Aviator #1 is? I found #5 but after a day of looking
cannot find before that.
from what I can glean every aviator is given a number
when they are put in service, someone must be the first.
also what is it up to now?


Right here!

http://www.history.navy.mil/avh-1910/APP01.PDF

The first 15 (read in four columns):
Naval Navy Air
Aviator Pilot
Number Name Service Number
1 Ellyson, Theodore G. USN 1
2 Rodgers, John USN
3 Towers, John H. USN 2
4 Herbster, Victor D. USN 5
5 Cunningham, Alfred A. USMC 14
6 Smith, Bernard L. USMC 6
7 Chevalier, Godfrey deC USN 7
8 Bellinger, Patrick N. L. USN 4
9 Billingsley, William D. USN
10 Murray, James M. USN
11 Mustin, Henry C. USN 3
12 McIlvain, William M. USMC 9
13 Richardson, Holden C. USN 12
14 Saufley, Richard C. USN 8
15 Bronson, Clarence K. USN 10

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"For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes
turned skyward;
For there you have been, and there you long to return."
Leonardo da Vinci