Frank Goldsborough
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| Born |
Francis Herbert Goldsborough July 16, 1910 Washington, D.C. |
| Died | July 16, 1930 (aged 20) Vermont |
| Cause of death | Air crash |
Francis Herbert Goldsborough (July 16, 1910 – July 16, 1930) was a record-holding aviator who died in a plane crash in Vermont on his 20th birthday.
Frank was born as Francis Herbert Goldsborough in Washington, D.C. on July 16, 1910 but went by the name Frank. His father was Brice Goldsborough (1891–1927), who died in a plane crash as Frances Wilson Grayson's navigator on an attempted crossing of the Atlantic Ocean from Newfoundland. Frank's stepmother was named Gertrude. By the time he was 18 the family was living in New York where he attended Flushing High School in Queens.
Frank held the junior transcontinental air speed record until his death. The record was then broken by Eddie August Schneider (1911–1940) on August 19, 1930 just a month after Frank's death. In 1930 Frank was living with his stepmother at 4114 75th Street in Queens, New York. In April and May 1930 he wrote a series of exclusive first-person accounts for The New York Times about his exploits in the National Air Tour and his breaking of the transcontinental air speed record.
His plane crashed in Vermont on July 15, 1930. His passenger Don Mockler walked away from the crash, dazed but alive, and went for help. Frank was trapped in the wreckage with a head injury for 18 hours before he was rescued, alive but not conscious. All his teeth had been knocked out and he was carried away by rescuers on a makeshift stretcher made from a parachute to the home of Harry C. Jenkins. Goldsborough died on July 16, 1930, at Putnam Memorial Hospital in Bennington without regaining consciousness.
He was buried on July 19, 1930 at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. Charles Lindbergh sent flowers. His body was moved by his stepmother and reburied on 30 July 1930 to Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, Westchester County, New York. His stepmother, Gertrude Jacobi Goldsborough, and her mother Anna Marie Hoehn Jacobi are buried there as well.
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