Orville Wright Signs a Pilot’s License for an Early Aviator

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Inventor of the airplane along with his brother Wilbur. A license for E. Melvin Young to be a pilot under the rules of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, for the year 1926, signed by Wright, and by Young himself. The license is a small booklet imprinted in gold on the front, and contains...

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Orville Wright Signs a Pilot’s License for an Early Aviator

Inventor of the airplane along with his brother Wilbur. A license for E. Melvin Young to be a pilot under the rules of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, for the year 1926, signed by Wright, and by Young himself. The license is a small booklet imprinted in gold on the front, and contains a photograph of Young, who was born in 1903. Judging from this, Young would have started flying in the early 1920s, making him a pioneer aviator.

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