March 5-12: First National Exposition of Aerial-Craft and Motor Trucks.

Washington D.C.: National Aviation Company, [1911]. First edition and the only known copy. Octavo. [16] pp. with ads and photographic illustrations throughout. Publisher's printed brown wrappers with lettering and images of a biplane and a truck on the front. Lower margin with a one inch tear (not into image), repaired. A very good copy.No copies located by OCLC. Inner and outer rear cover with ads for trucks and the inner front cover is an ad for the National Aviation School in Maryland. Also of interest is a full page page biography and photograph of Glenn Curtiss, scheduled to become the director of the Aviation School for the National Aviation Company. The National Aviation Company, was formed to give instruction in Curtiss, Bleriot, and Wright aeroplanes and provide repairs for these machines. The National Aviation Company was the sole agent for Curtiss aeroplanes in the Washington, Maryland and Virginia area. There is a page with a photographic illustration of Curtiss winning the Gordon Bennett Trophy at Rheims; a photograph of the Wright plane at Fort Myer; and an advertisement for and a photographic illustration of the Rooney Multiplane (with three front and rear wings) and a photograph of Langley's Aerodrome on a houseboat in Virginia as well as a separate article on Prof. Langley.. There is also an ad for a distributor of Thor Motorcycles."Washington will have its first national aeronautical exposition of March 5 to 12, inclusive. The exhibit will be held in Exposition Hall, one of the largest buildings in the country. which has just been completed at M and North Capitol Streets. At least ten machines, representing various types of monoplanes and biplanes, will be on exhibit for eight days. In addition to aeroplanes, models, gliders, aerial motors, propellers and hangars, aeronautical supplies of all kinds will be shown. Automobiles and motor trucks will also be exhibited" (Aeronautics, March 1911)