LEON VERSTRAETEN 1876-????

PROF. LEON VERSTRAETEN LEERAAR IN DE AVIATIEK EN BESTUURDER DER FRANSCHE VLIEGSCHOOL SOMMER TE MOUZON op zijn Mouzon Tweedekker. Collection of Dave Lam, 12-4-06

 

GRANDE SEMAINE D'AVIATION DE ROUEN (19-20 Juin 1910) VERSTRAETEN (Belge), chef-pilote de l'école Sommer Collection of Jean-Pierre Lauwers

 

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Vliegenier Leon Verstraeten (born on 9 nov 1876 te Mechelen, België). -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Luc SCHEPENS Contributed by Luc Schepens, 11-28-12

 

ONLINE RESOURCES      If you use the Google search engine on Leon Verstraeten, (8-23-03), you will find just one link. As of 12-4-06, the link is obsolete. However, you fill find about 57 other links, some of which are very helpful. THE PIONEERS      This website offers a resumé of the history of aviation in Belgium from 1794 to 1996. Included in the story is the following paragraph which mentions Leon Verstraeten.        "In 1910, the Aero-Club of Belgium organised a flying week in Brussels at the Stokkel Hippodrome. Eleven Belgian pilots were listed on the program : Pierre de Caters, Jan Olieslagers, Charles Van den Born, Joseph Christiaens, Jules Tyck, Jules de Laminne, Nicolas Kinet, Alphonse de Ridder, Leon Verstraeten, Joseph d'Hespel, and Alfred Lanser.      Olieslagers established a new world record flying at a height of 1,524 metres."

 

Léon Verstraeten ( - ) Belgique      My friend Dave Lam offered this link to us. It leads to an article on Verstraeten which includes a very nice photo of him and his plane and describes an event in 1910 in which several of the pioneer French aviators participated.      Dave mentioned in passing that Léon had received Belgian License # 14, on 12 03 1910.

 

I don't know the date of his death.

 

Editor's Note: If you have any information on this pioneer aviator please contact me. E-mail to Ralph Cooper

 

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