Pigeon Scout

Pigeon Fraser Scout 117, delivered to Langley Field November 1917, transferred o McCook Field for testing, but crashed soon after taking off on its first flight, killing the pilot. Founded in 1830, the Henry Pigeon Mast and Spar Co, Boston MA. was reorganised as the Pigeon Hollow Spar Co, 131 Coleridge St, Boston. Company in 1900, building automobiles and gondolas for airships, prior to their foray into the aeroplane field; still active in building watercraft to about 1979.
The United States Army Aeronautical Division rejected the design, , but four aircraft were built, of which 3 for USAAD, but were not accepted after testing at McCook Field-one reportedly was a static test model, one crashed and burned in a test flight, one was put in storage by Pigeon Co, and info on the fourth is imprecise, but it could be Albrees plane. One was located and restored by Cole Palen at Old Rhinebeck NY in the 1980s

Picture No

13156259

Media ID

47773752

Size

5433px x 3343px (3.1MB)

Credit

Source

Unattributed photographer - scanned from original print

Date

1917