Tales from Connecticut's Aviation History
In-Person Lecture: John Cilio

Seymour, CT– The Seymour Public Library will be hosting aviation historian John Cilio’s free, in-person presentation, Tales From Connecticut’s Aviation History- Keeping Things Up In The Air. Registration is not required.
 
Historian & author John Cilio shares tales spanning 17 decades discussing Connecticut and the inventors and people who provided the global aviation community with critical engines, instruments, technologies, and more.

The talk will go into specifics such as the fact that Connecticut’s Gustave Whitehead successfully flew a powered airplane, in front of witnesses, in Fairfield on August 14, 1901, beating the Wright brothers by more than two years.  The Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Corporation was established in Hartford as early as 1925 and a few years later, in 1929, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, headed by Igor Sikorsky, moved to Stratford CT.  Learn more about these and other major contributions that were made to aviation history within Connecticut’s borders.    

John Cilio is a skilled aviation historian focused on mid twentieth-century general aviation, military aircraft and the people that made them possible. Find out more about John on his website: www.vintageflyer.com.

This presentation is free and all are welcome.  Registration is not required. The Seymour Public Library is located at 46 Church St., Seymour, CT 06483. Please call the library at 203-888-3903 or email [email protected] for more information.