1904 - 1944 (40 years)
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| Name |
Lawrence John CHIAPPINO |
| Birth |
26 May 1904 |
San Jose, Santa Clara, California, USA  [1, 2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Also Known As |
Chip |
| Residence |
1 Apr 1935 |
San Gabriel, Los Angeles, California, USA [2] |
| Census |
2 Apr 1940 |
Glendale, Los Angeles, California, USA [2] |
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| Religion |
Roman Catholic |
| Education |
University of California, Berkeley |
| Occupation |
Pilot |
| Cause of death |
Heart Disease |
| Death |
26 May 1944 |
Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, USA [1] |
| Person ID |
I48167 |
Dyal and Speckels |
| Last Modified |
13 Feb 2016 |
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| Notes |
- Chip learned to fly in the army, returned to his native California in 1928, where in 1929 he was an instructor with the Palo Alto School of Aviation. He next worked for Western Air Express, a predecessor of T.W.A. He was a long-time transport pilot for T.W.A., at times living at the midwestern and western hubs of the airline.
He has a place in history as a member of a small group of passengers on the April 17, 1944, flight with Jack Frye and Howard Hughes in the Lockheed Constellation that set a transcontinental speed record for transport planes. He was also the T.W.A. pilot assigned to test the Constellation during its development process. [1]
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| Sources |
- [S2463] The Grand Central Air Terminal, Lawrence J. “Chip” Chiappino.
- [S1629] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, Los Angeles County, California, ED 19-193, p. 1B, line 47.
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