Cornelius Coffey and His Aircraft
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The CPTP offered blacks flight training.
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The federally funded Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP) offered blacks unprecedented opportunities for flight training, although on a segregated basis. Coffey obtained a CPTP franchise for Chicago in 1939 on the eve of World War II.
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National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
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SI 99-15430
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