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Feb 08, 1899 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States Died on 27 Mar 1990 (aged 91)
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About Lester J. Maitland
- Lester James Maitland (February 8, 1899 – March 27, 1990) was an aviation pioneer and career officer in the United States Army Air Forces and its predecessors.
- Maitland began his career as a Reserve pilot in the U.S.
- Army Air Service during World War I and rose to brigadier general in the Michigan Air National Guard following World War II. In 1927 Maitland and Lt.
- Albert F.
- Hegenberger completed the first transpacific flight from California to Hawaii, flying the modified transport Bird of Paradise.
- Although the recognition accorded them was less in comparison with the adulation given Charles Lindbergh for his transatlantic flight only five weeks earlier, Maitland and Hegenberger's feat was arguably more significant from a navigational stand point.Maitland continued his career in the Air Corps, serving in combat as a bombardment group commander during World War II.
- He later became the first director of the Wisconsin Aeronautics Commission and the Director of Civil Defense for the state of Michigan before changing professions and becoming an Episcopal minister.
