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Wedell-Williams Museum, Patterson, LA.

Jimmie Wedell taught Harry Williams how to fly. Together, they created the Wedell-Williams Air Service Corporation in #Patterson with the first enterprise being a passenger service from New Orleans to Houston, #Louisiana’s first commercial airline. The company also started their own postal air service and opened a flying school. Continuing his earlier work as a designer, Wedell had a factory built to design and build low-wing monoplanes, starting with the #WedellWilliams Model 22.

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Uploaded on July 1, 2016