The event took place over nine days and featured aerial races, and contests involving duration, distance, speed and altitude.

Featured aviators included Wilbur Wright, Alfred Leblanc, Émile Aubrun, René Simon, John Moisant and Claude Grahame-White.

[3] August Belmont Jr. was a Wright Company stockholder and he was selected to be the president of the event's organizing committee.

Aviators began to arrive on October 9 including Frenchmen Alfred Leblanc and Jacques Faure [fr], and American John Moisant.

Some of the featured aviators included Wilbur Wright, Alfred Leblanc, Émile Aubrun, René Simon, John Moisant and Claude Grahame-White.

[5] The aviation meet was the second international tournament and the contests involved, duration, distance, speed and altitude.

Some of the featured events included: the Scientific American Trophy, Michelin Cup, and the Statue of Liberty Flight.

[10] James Radley won a race during the event on October 26, covering 20 miles in 19 minutes and 46 seconds, an American speed record.

William W. Niles spoke for the Aero Corporation and made claims that the expenses for the show totaled US$200,000 (equivalent to $6,540,000 in 2023).

[14] In March 1911 (five months after the contest) the Board of Governors of the Aero Club met and decided to disqualify Moisant because they ruled that he had failed to accomplish a one-hour flight prior to his entry.

[14] Moisant had died on the morning of December 31, 1910, in an air crash near Harahan, Louisiana, prior to the decision.