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- ↑ "Battlefield Airways [advertisement]" (Google News Archive). Gettysburg Compiler. August 25, 1928. Retrieved 2011-12-08.
- ↑ "Major Owens Forced Down By Darkness" (Google News Archive). The Gettysburg Times . Times and News Publishing Company. June 29, 1928. Retrieved 2011-12-09.
Major Owens and Lieutenant Bradford inspected the Gettysburg...field of the Battlefield airways along the Emmitsburg road this morning.
- ↑ "Commission Refuses Charter To Battlefield Airways, Inc" (Google News Archive). The Gettysburg Times. Times and News Publishing Company. December 8, 1928. Retrieved 2011-12-12.
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