Lost out to Curtiss SOC. Only one prototype built. Assigned to Mustin Field, Philadelphia. Crashed in May 1938. Photo from: National Museum of the US Navy

US government evacuation drill. Helicopter of the 1254th Air Transport Group, the same VIP unit that carried President Eisenhower in a H-13J that day. Photo by: Paul Schutzer / Life

US government evacuation drill. The 1254th ATG at Andrews AFB operated at least three H-21Bs for VIP flights. 52-8682 and 52-8684 were also assigned. Photo by: Paul Schutzer / Life

Photo must have been taken on 12 July 1957, the day of the first US presidential flight in a helicopter in a simulated evacuation of the government to Camp David. Eisenhower took off from the South Lawn of the White House in a Bell H-13J, chosen for the type's safety record. Six H-19, H-21 and HUS-1 helicopters operated from The Ellipse. HMX-1 was then an experimental unit. 143973 delivered in May 1957, destroyed in Vietnam on 31 January 1968. Photo by: Paul Schutzer / Life

Pacusan Dreamboat made a couple of significant flights. In December 1945 it broke the transcontinental speed record from Burbank to New York. In October 1946 it flew non-stop from Hawaii to Cairo over the North Pole. This photo may show the crew being honoured in Washington on their return from Cairo but this is not definite. Photo from: National Archives at College Park, Maryland

The National Air & Space Museum opened in 1976, one year before I took this slide. The Wright Flyer was suspended in the entrance atrium along with the Spirit of St. Louis, the Bell X-1, and the North American X-15. More recently, the Flyer had its own display gallery.

A temporary airfield was set up on the polo field in Potomac Park for a US Army air mail service from Washington to New York via Philadelphia starting in May 1918. In August 1918 the Post Office took over the service and moved the Washington terminus to an airfield in College Park, Maryland. Photo from: National Archives at College Park, Maryland

Richard Byrd testing a rubber lifeboat for the upcoming MacMillan Arctic Expedition. According to one newspaper, this was to take place at Anacostia although others claim this is 'New York'. A-5914 is listed as a VE-7SF, a single-seat landplane fighter variant of the VE-7 Bluebird. This floatplane is a two-seater. One VE-7SF was reportedly converted to VE-7SH floatplane. Photo from: Library of Congress

Two days before the end of WWI, a lost German pilot landed this Fokker D.VII behind allied lines near Verdun. Sent to the USA as a war prize, it was eventually added to the Smithsonian's collection. The aircraft was restored in 1970 in the original markings of pilot Heinz von Beaulieu-Marconnay who landed it over fifty years earlier.

This F-86A served with the 4th Fighter Interceptor Group during the Korean War. This slide was taken when the a/c was on display at the main Air & Space Museum on the Mall in Washington, D.C. It has since been relocated and is on display in the Udvar-Hazy Building at Dulles Airport.

Pictured after sunset (ISO 12000) over the Potomac River in D.C. This Huey is former US Navy BuNo 158562. After its career with the US Marine Corps, the helicopter arrived at AMARG on 26 January 2011 with inventory code 7H0057. After some seven months of storage, the USAF selected the Bell for conversion. The helicopter was taken from AMARG on 18 August 2011 and was moved to Fleet Readiness Center East Cherry Point (NC) for depot-level maintenance overhaul. During 2014 it was taken on strength of the 1st Helicopter Squadron at Andrews AFB (MD).

Pictured over the Rock Creek Parkway near the Connecticut Ave. One of some 25 Hueys still in service with the 1st Helicopter Squadron. The squadron is based at Joint Base Andrews (MD). The squadron's primary mission is to be prepared to evacuate high-ranking personnel from the Capital area in the event of a national emergency. But it secondairy mission is most common: supporting high-ranking executive Branch, dignitaries, military leaders and other VIPs.

Pictured in near last light over the Potomac River in DC, this rare MH-60R of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VS) One, (AIRTEVRON ONE) which is based at NAS Patuxent River (MD). 166519, the fifth MH-60R built, was delivered as part of the Low Rate Initial Production II line to the US Navy in July 2007.

Pictured in near last light of the Potomac River in D.C. The Bell was delivered to US Department Of Interior in May 1999 and acted since within the U.S. Park Police (USPP) Aviation Division and carries Eagle 1 on the front side of the engine bay. The helicopter is used within the law enforcement and Emergency Medical Support (EMS) missions around Washington, D.C.

A Marine One or Two (one = carrying the President, two = carrying vice president) flying over DC. Of course other prominent individuals (i.e. White House cabinet and staff) are able to board the VH-3D too. The white top is one of eleven in service and was pictured over the Potomac River. The VH-3D entered service in 1978 and is expected to be replaced by the VH-92A from 2023.

'The first plane of the new transcontinental air line, of which Col. Lindbergh is one of the organizers, photographed at Boiling Fields [sic].' Bolling Field was the same runway as Anacostia until 1935, when the US Army moved to a new Bolling Field nearby. TAT offered the first coast-to-coast air service between New York and Los Angeles in 1929, although the 48-hour journey involved a night train between NY and Columbus, Ohio and another one between Waynoka, Oklahoma and Clovis, New Mexico. 'Take A Train' soon merged with Maddux Air Lines, and then with Western Air Express to form TWA in 1930. Photo from: Library of Congress

Christened here by Eleanor Roosevelt. Photo from: Library of Congress

The Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (MPDC) has been operating this AS350 since 2002.