Aviation View - Oct 2023

47 AVIATION VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3 CLAREMONT MUNICI PAL AI RPORT (OR CMA) “Very few people have access to the facility,” he said. “Pilots, in general, do. They come and go. The facility is monitored with a security camera system. In fact, the airport probably has the best camera system installed in the whole city. It has infra-red tracking, so we do monitor everything, and we know who’s coming and who’s going.” Flying into history According to Pendleton, the first documented airplane flight in New Hampshire took place on June 19, 1911, when Harry Atwood flew his Burgess-Wright biplane from Waltham, Mass., following the course of the Merrimack River as far as Concord in one day. The first instance of aircraft ownership in New Hampshire came with Robert Fogg’s acquisition of a Curtis biplane in Toronto in 1920. A talented aviator with an appropriately Dickensian surname (or perhaps Jules Verne) suiting his profession, Fogg then flew overland to Concord “without a compass or guide other than the sun.” www.VRH.org Valley Regional Hospital has been caring for the greater Claremont community since 1893. Proudly Providing High Quality Community-Based Care. Valley Regional Hospital