The Frank Coffyn Collection: Contacts & Credits

The Frank Coffyn Collection is a gift from the estate of Kingsland Adams Coffyn by the Green family to the Empire State Aerosciences Museum. This website is available for individual educational and research purposes. Information and images in this website may not be used for commercial purposes. If you have questions about permitted uses for any content in this database, please contact esam@esam.org.

This project was made possible by the United States Centennial of Flight Commission.

Credits:

The Empire State Aerosciences Museum
Mardy Moore, Acting director
Jack Van derVeer, Research Library, Coffyn Collection image digitization

The Wright Experience
Ken Hyde, President and founder
Greg Cone, Master machinist, Image research and identification

Cognitive Applications Incorporated
Paul Glenshaw, Vice President, Project concept and content
Jason Ryan, Production Director
Joss Munro, Project manager
Kevan Davis, Programming
Eric Bates, Website design
Mara Glenshaw, Editor

Bibliography:

The flight logs and exhibition contracts of the Wright Exhibition team from the Library of Congress were used to identify many of the images. The Harold E. Morehouse Flying Pioneers Biographies Collection in the archives of the National Air and Space Museum was an invaluable resource. Finally, a handwritten autobiography by Frank Coffyn, Flying with the Wrights, written in 1929-1930 yielded many important clues.

In addition, the following published titles were used:

Crouch, T. D. (1989) The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright (New York: WW Norton)

McFarland, M.W. (1953) The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright: Including the Chanute-Wright Letters and Other Papers of Octave Chanute (New York: McGraw-Hill)

Renstrom, Arthur G. (1975) Wilbur and Orville Wright: A Chronology Commemorating the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Orville Wright (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress)

Special thanks to the Troy, New York Historical Society

Contact information:

The Empire State Aerosciences Museum
250 Rudy Chase Drive, Glenville, NY, 12302
ph. (518) 377-2191 fax. (518) 377-1959
E-Mail: esam@esam.org Website: www.esam.org

The Wright Experience
PO Box 3365
Warrenton, VA 20188
ph. (540) 347-1909 fax. (540) 349-1764
E-mail: wrightexperience@pobox.com Website:www.wrightexperience.com

Cognitive Applications Inc.
2647 Connecticut Avenue NW Suite 200
Washington, DC 20008
Tel.(202) 232-7467 fax.(202) 232-7468
E-mail: paulg@cogapp.com Website: www.cogapp.com