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Thomas George Lanphier Sr.

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Thomas George Lanphier, Sr. was a Major in the US Army, was Commanding Officer of Selfridge Field.

With Charles Lindbergh he was a partner in Bird Aircraft Corp. and T.A.T. He bought Manhattan's Phoenix Cereal Beverage Company and applied for a license to manufacture 3.2 beer under the brewery's old name of Flanagan-Nay Brewery Corp. Since 1925 the brewery has reputedly been run, with William Dwyer, by Owen Madden, who was in Sing Sing Prison, who in 1932 ordered an airplane from, and was instructed by Major Lanphier. His son was Thomas George Lanphier, Jr.

Spirit of Saint Louis

On July 1, 1927 from Lambert Field, St. Louis, to Selfridge Field, Mt. Clemens, Michigan (Flew via Ft. Wayne, Inc.; Toledo, Ohio; Detroit, Mich.) "Major Lanphier, Commanding Officer of Selfridge Field, piloted the Spirit of St. Louis on one flight in the vicinity of the field"

Reference

  • Time (magazine); Monday, March 22, 1926; "Up in Alaska on a snow-covered field just outside of Fairbanks, with its railroad and clustered wooden buildings, two Fokker monoplanes were finally assembled last week. Captain George H. Wilkins, leader of the U. S. aero expedition which is to fly over the Polar blindspot to Spitsbergen called to his aides. They were Major Thomas G. Lanphier and Lieutenant Carl B. Eielson, the pilots, and A. M. Smith. All was set for the first tests. But Captain Wilkins would not commence until the crowd of spectators-newspapermen, townsmen and women of Fairbanks-dispersed. He was afraid of killing someone. So they scattered and the propellers were turned over for the first time.
  • Time (magazine); Monday, April 19, 1926; "The Fairbanks operators were, however, in constant touch with Wilkins' overland party under Explorer "Sandy" Smith. The latter had been obliged to leave his comrades encamped some 140 miles south of Point Barrow on the Colville River, while he and an aide mushed across the tundra to the nearest settlement. He had run out of food for the dogs. Soon, the encamped ones flashed, the animals would have to be shot. Wilkins, second-in-command, Major Lanphier, left behind in Fairbanks, at once rushed repairs on the damaged Fokker Detroiter to send aid. Meantime he worried and worried about Wilkins and Eielson."
  • Time (magazine); Monday, June 26, 1933; Thomas George Lanphier
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