Curtiss-Southwest Field was an airport outside Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was operated by the Curtiss Southwest Airline Company, founded in 1919, which used the airport to support its efforts to sell airplanes to private businesses, notably in the expanding petroleum industry.[1] One of Curtiss-Southwest's planes was used for an August 14, 1919 shipment of insecticide from Tulsa to Kansas City, promoted as the first interstate freight shipment by air.[2] During the Tulsa race riot, this airport was the origin of planes that attacked Black Americans in Tulsa.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ "Airplane Meets Mid-Continent Oil Field Speed Requirements", The Oil Trade Journal, October 1920.
  2. ^ "Heroes Big and Small Make Up Tulsa Aviation History" Archived 2018-03-17 at the Wayback Machine, GTR Newspapers, December 27, 2007.
  3. ^ Madigan, Tim. The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, New York: St Martin's Press (2001), pp. 4, 131–132, 144, 159, 164, 249. ISBN 0-312-27283-9
  4. ^ White, Walter F (29 June 1921). "The Eruption of Tulsa". The Nation. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
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