[People with Aerial Experiment Association's Aerodrome No. 1 "Red Wing" aircraft]

Photograph of people with the Aerial Experiment Association's Aerodrome No. 1 "Red Wing" aircraft on the iced-over Keuka Lake, New York, circa March 1908.

Caption on verso: "Red Wing. The first aeroplane to make a public flight in America, on March 17, 1908, when it flew 319 feet from the ice on Lake Keuka, N. Y., F. W. Balwin, aviator. Aeroplane was wrecked."

Stamped on verso: "Photo by / H. M. Benner / Hammondsport, N. Y."