Way Back When – SB in March 1926

Here come the Swallows! The planes, that is. “Earle Ovington, well-known aviator of Santa Barbara, yesterday received word of his appointment as Southern California distributor for the ‘Swallow’ airplane manufactured in Wichita, Kansas.” – Santa Barbara Morning Press, March 30, 1926

Ovington ordered three of the aircraft, so local folks would probably be seeing them swoop around the skies of Santa Barbara in the near future.

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