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William H. Dowling
Aircraft Dealer and Moving Picture Pilot
William H. Dowling was a Waco and Fairchild dealer at Fullerton,
CA. He learned to fly in 1924 in Jennies, and then
graduated to Wacos and Fairchilds. He ran a flying
school as well as a dealership, and flew stunts for the early
moving picture companies.
The image, from the January, 1931 “Aero Digest”,
shows him standing next to a Waco dressed up as a British
military airplane with a dummy wooden gun mounted above his
right hand.
Dowling visited Tucson on August 3, 1927 flying an unidentified
Waco 10. He carried as passenger M.C. Loutt. They
were westbound from Lordsburg, NM back to their home base,
Fullerton, CA. They signed the Register at 11:15AM,
probably had lunch, and departed at 1:30PM. Interestingly,
their airplane was inspected while on the ground by one of
the early U.S. Border Patrol agents,
Chester Gracie (Gracie signed in the Remarks column of the
Register).
I know very little about pilot Dowling. Can you help?
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Dossier 2.1.83
UPLOADED: 07/11/06 REVISED: 11/18/08
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