Albert Daniel Smith

Albert Daniel Smith (February 6, 1887 – January 20, 1970) was a pioneer aviator and later a Brigadier General.

He trained to fly and was awarded Aero Club of America license #354.

[1] Albert D. Smith won an American Hydroplane duration record on February 19, 1916[2] In March 1918 he crashed at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio and was injured.

[1] Under his command the first transcontinental flight for the United States Army was made in 1918 using four JN-4 aircraft.

[3][4] In 1919 he joined Henry H. Arnold's Northwestern Forest Fire Patrol and was released from service in 1923 because of his disability from his previous crash.