Early aviation history surrounding the Cumberland area centered on an airfield at Mexico Farms with the establishment of the US Army Air Services airport on that site. Following the rather abbreviated history of the Government Field, Mexico Farms evolved into a long standing private airfield that has served as the focal point for a great number of retrospective items worthy of notation. This chapter includes segments of aviation history of the decade of the 1920’s including tales of local pilots, foremost of those early aviators being Ronald ‘Torque’ Landis. All but the last item directly involves Mexico Farms, the exception is the tale of the Pinto airfield. That short lived Cumberland Airport preceded by sixteen years what is now known as this area’s major aerial transportation focal point, first known as the Cumberland Municipal Airport and currently the Greater Cumberland Regional Airport.
Wings Over Cumberland 