United States of America “Annual Sporting License,” number 286, issued to Clarence M. Young by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale for the year of 1927, two pages, measuring 5 x 4 open, signed at the bottom of the left side by Orville Wright as the contest committee chairman. License is filled out in type, authorizing Young for "Type of Aircraft: Airplane," and bears an affixed 1 x 1.25 portrait of Young. In fine condition.
Col. Clarence M. Young was a renowned aviation pioneer (1889-1973) who was issued the second flying U.S. Civil Air license in history. Young was President Herbert Hoover’s aviation secretary, the architect of the Federal airways system, and he appeared on the front cover of Time magazine in 1932.
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