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Mar 22, 2004, 7:28 PM

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Francisco Sarabia -- aviation pioneer -- another new webpage

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Francisco Sarabia was a major player in the early days of aviation in Mexico. Since he was also a native son of Lerdo and there is a museum of his life here, I put together a little web page about him.

Probably of the most interest to aviation history buffs.

http://rollybrook.com/sarabia.htm

Rolly Pirate

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(This post was edited by Rolly on Mar 22, 2004, 7:31 PM)

mepsi

Mar 22, 2004, 9:21 PM

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Re: [Rolly] Francisco Sarabia -- aviation pioneer -- another new webpage

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Hi Rolly

Glad to see you were able to get this up on your site, epsecially since the Sarabia Museum is in the town where you live. IMO, he was a true hero and it's really unfortunate he died the way he did.

The other people with a particular interest in him are stamp and postal history collectors. Commerative covers were prepared and franked with a stamp which was specially overprinted by the Mexican Post Office. A portion of the sales of these helped fund his record flight and the covers currently sell in the $300-400 range.

At the time of the accident there was a tremendous outcry in Mexico with claims being made that his plane was sabotaged and there were allegedly a number of riots which were apparently anti-US in nature.

Monte