Frank J. Bell

Frank Joseph Bell was an American aviator from Wisconsin. Bell also worked as a dentist. Bell was a member of the Early Birds of Aviation.

Biography

He was born in 1880 in Potosi, Wisconsin. In 1912, Bell flew the first recorded flight into Billings Logan International Airport in Billings, Montana. He utilized a homemade Curtiss 0-x-5 airplane. In 1913, he made the longest flight to date in Montana, a record he held until 1916. He was the 198th person to gain an American pilots' license.
He married Alice A. McCormick in 1906.
He was made a fellow of the American College of Dentistry in 1939.
He died on November 5, 1957, in Billings.