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Civil Air Patrol Is Organised[il»M Cli/ HUrfdu)KKUWOOD CITY, Dec. 23—The Civilian Aeronautical authority's order grounding private4 [dunes li3 the weal const combat zone for ibe duration, will not bull work on thlt; St inis on Flying School's now Redwood City nil port, Lee O. Cox of Hillsborough, president, said to-lt;1 ay.Disclosing that plans are materializing for mnsteting private pilots into the now “civilian air patrol under army air corps jurisdiction soon after the first of the ynir, Cox said the lied wood City nii}H»rt would be n base for such operations, us well as’a militaryemergency field.Training of civilian pilots for instructors at army air corps cadet (Valuing centers has already been transferred from the Slimson school's prcxenL field at Belmont to Susanville, 2 DO milfs from the coast. These students will finish their course at Susanvitle.“Flying, in the private sense, is through for the duration/1 snid Cox, vyho revealed that instructions have bedii received to remove propellors from private craft.However, plans are nearly complete for inauguration of the civilian air patrol, which would lake over-, non-combat work for the avmy air .corps, he declared. *Civllian pilots hfthe patrol would engage in trimspfVrtutinn, searching Cor lost planes, aiding the FBI, and nihrr work .of a non-combatant nature. : ‘ • ‘V1 T heie me .35 to 10 pilots at the « Belmont field -among, several hundred on the Peninsula amT about 4,000 throughout California who s would be eligible for induction' in-! to the civilian, patrol- Some U0,tXJ0 throughout the United States, ultimately will be eligible for this arm of national defense, according to Cox.j Order.* applying to the Stinson | school also apply to other instruction schools on the Peninsula, including I hose at Mills Field and !Snii Mateo nirjKirt. Commercial airliners carrying transcontinental mail and passengers are not affected by the CAA's grounding order.-(i-r-
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San Mateo Times
San Mateo, California, US
Tue, Dec 23, 1941
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