THE AIRPOST JOURNAL  -  September  1970

                              ROSCOE TURNER

          Col. Roscoe Turner, one of the nation's air pioneers and the
  founder of Turner Airlines, died recently in Indianapolis, Indiana at the
  age of 74.
          Turner was a pilot in World War I.  After the war, he joined the
  "barnstormers" whose exploits kept aviation alive in the postwar period.
          He barnstormed for eight years and then opened the first
  commercial airfield in Richmond, Virginia, in 1927.  He was the only man
  to win the Thompson trophy for cross-country speed flying three times.
  He set seven transcontinental speed records and his 1933 Bendix trophy
  time of 11 1/2 hours from New York to Los Angeles stood unbroken for five
  years.
          He settled in Indianapolis in 1939 and established the Roscoe
  Turner Aeronautical Corp.
          In 1949, Turner Airlines, as one of the post-World War II feeder
  airlines, inaugurated service on AM Route 88 between Indianapolis,
  Indiana and Grand Rapids, Michigan.  Other route segments were
  inaugurated later and the airline's name was changed to Lake Central
  Airlines.  In 1968, Lake Central was merged with the surviving Allegheny
  Airlines.
                                                  -RJA


                                  THE AIRPOST JOURNAL, SEPTEMBER, 1970
                                                     V. 41, #12, p.414


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    Data transcription by:  Milton Sandy, Jr. August 24, 1994