Farnum Fish


Farnum Thayer Fish was an early American airplane pilot known as the Boy Aviator. He was, at the age of 15, the youngest licensed aviator in the world.

He was born in Los Angeles, California on October 5, 1896 to a wealthy physician. Fish enrolled in the Wright Flying School near Dayton, Ohio in 1911 at the age of 15. He stated in a 1971 newspaper article that he received four hours of lessons from Orville Wright.

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