Victor Carlstrom

1st Lieutenant Victor Carlström (April 13, 1890 – May 9, 1917) was a record-holding Swedish-American pioneer aviator.

[1] He was born in Gustafs parish in Kopparberg, Sweden on April 13, 1890, to Axel Carlström.

[3] He became an instructor one week after leaving his job at the cattle ranch.

He also planned to make a non-stop flight from Chicago to New York.

[4] He went to work for the Atlantic Coast Aeronautical Station where he and a student pilot, Cary B. Epes, were killed on May 9, 1917, when their biplane collapsed in flight.