Logan Archbold Vilas

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Logan Archbold Vilas
Chicago, Illinois
DiedMay 15, 1976(1976-05-15) (aged 84)
Other namesJack Vilas
Parent(s)Royal Cooper Vilas
Carrie Logan Ward

Logan Archbold "Jack" Vilas (May 25, 1891 – May 15, 1976) was an aviation pioneer and a member of the Early Birds of Aviation.[1] He was inducted into the Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame in 2000.

Biography

He was born in

New York City on May 25, 1891, to Royal Cooper Vilas and Carrie Logan Ward.[2]
They moved to Evanston, IL when Jack was about 5 years old.

In the spring of 1913, Vilas visited

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with the Wisconsin Aero Club and, in the summer of 1915, he was hired by the Wisconsin Conservation Commission to fly fire patrol over the Northwoods in his Curtiss Model F flying boat.[5][6] On June 29, 1915, at Trout Lake, Wisconsin, Vilas made what is believed to be the world’s first forest patrol flight.[7]

In 1929, he began writing a book “for the purpose of giving to my children some of the happenings in my early life…” The book is “My Life To My Children” by Jack Vilas. Published in 1934.

He died on May 15, 1976, in Bonita Springs, Florida.[8]

References

  1. Early Aviators
    . Retrieved 2010-08-02.
  2. ^ Logan Archbold Vilas World War I draft registration
  3. ^ "Personairlities". Aero Digest. Vol. 27, no. 4. October 1935. pp. 84, 86. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  4. New York Times
    . July 2, 1913. Retrieved 2009-07-25.
  5. ^ "Logan A. Vilas". Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 2008-10-20. Retrieved 2009-07-25.
  6. ^ "Jack Vilas Day festival to mark historic achievements of pioneering aviator". Lakeland Times. August 8, 2008. Retrieved 2010-08-02. Vilas made a big splash on the world stage in June 1915, when he made his history-making first forest fire patrol flight in his $7,000 open cockpit Curtiss Model F Flying Boat, taking off from North Trout Lake in Boulder Junction.
  7. ^ "June 29, 1915: First Aerial Fire Patrol Took Flight". Forest History Society. Retrieved 2014-08-27.
  8. ^ Social Security Death Index