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Publication Date
10-1997
Abstract
A brief piece on pilot Tony Jannus, who flew a small plane across Tampa Bay in 1914 marking the first scheduled commercial passenger flight in the United States. The piece, Bill Dudley with contributions by Tom Reilly and Ed Hoffman, also includes mention of Percival Fansler, a Jacksonville businessman who believed in the future of air travel and advocated for the scheduled flight between Tampa and St. Petersburg.
Keywords
Airlines, Percival Elliott Fansler (1881-1937), Airboats, Tony Jannus, St. Petersburg Museum of History
Extent
00:05:28; 5 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Hillsborough County (Fla.); Pinellas County (Fla.); Tampa (Fla.); St. Petersburg (Fla.)
Language
English
Digital Date
2026
Media Type
Audio recordings
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
fhc_audio-1134
Creative Commons
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Dudley, Bill; Reilly, Tom; and Hoffman, Ed, "Airplane Pilot Tony Jannus" (1997). Florida Humanities Audio Archive. 135.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/fhc_audio/135
