James Banning in the Miss Ames
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Banning barnstorming in Iowa in 1929 with his airplane Miss Ames
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James Banning was one of the first African Americans to earn a pilot’s license. He studied engineering at Iowa State, then joined William J. Powell at the Bessie Coleman Flying Club in Los Angeles.
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National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
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SI 83-97
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