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On 26 October 1922, Lieutenant Commander Godfrey de Chevalier, USN, flew his Aeromarine 39-B on to the flight deck of the United States Navy's first aircraft carrier, USS Langley (CV-1), while cruising off Cape Henry, Virginia.
Chevalier had launched from the Navy's Yorktown Naval Aviation Field at Yorktown, Virginia (more on Yorktown Airfield).
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History was made with America's first carrier landing, vice the ship landings made earlier.
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Unfortunately, young naval aviator de Chevalier died a few weeks after his moment in history when he crashed near Norfolk, Virginia. A theater in his hometown of Medford, Massachusetts was later named for him, read more about de Chevalier here...