Kelsey (1928 Technique)īen Kelsey entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1924, with a major in mechanical engineering.
(These, as well as a number of other licenses and identification cards belonging to Kelsey are held in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum.) B. He also held Department of Commerce Mechanic’s License No. When the United States Department of Commerce began issuing pilot licenses after 1928, Kelsey qualified for Transport License No. (N.A.A.), on behalf of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, about 1926. 6843, by the National Aeronautic Association of U.S.A. Kelsey was granted an aviator’s certificate, No. Ben Kelsey (center) and his Curtiss Jenny. Kelsey was able to buy a Curtiss “Jenny” airframe from the school, and accumulated parts and an OX-5 engine to put it into flying condition. Ban Keley’s diploma and first solo certificate from the Curtiss School of Aviation. The school offered 500 minutes (8 hours, 20 minutes) of flight instruction for $500. He enrolled with the Curtiss Flying School, located at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York. He had an early interest in aviation, and he began flight lessons at the age of 14.
Kelsey attended Crosby High School in Waterbury.
His mother’s family, the Scovills, were a prominent manufacturing family in Connecticut. He was the son of Benjamin Richard Kelsey, an agent for the Waterbury Blank Book Co., and Elizabeth Anna Scovill Kelsey. (Kelsey Family Collection)īenjamin Scovill Kelsey, an aeronautical engineer and test pilot, despite his youth and junior rank, was one of the most influential Air Corps officers in the shaping of United States military air power during the years leading up to World War II.īen Kelsey was born in the Kelsey family home at 22 Johnson Street, Waterbury, Connecticut, on 9 March 1906. The ribbon below his “wings” represents the Distinguished Flying Cross. Lieutenant Kelsey is wearing the badge of a Senior Pilot. First Lieutenant Benjamin Scovill Kelsey, Air Corps, United States Army, circa 1937.
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