Carl Cover

Carl Anson Cover (26 April 1893 – 27 November 1944) was the chief test pilot and first to fly the Douglas Aircraft Company DC-1, DC-2, DC-3, DC-4, and the DC-5 airliners. Cover became Senior Vice President and general manager for Douglas Aircraft and later Vice President of Bell Aircraft.

Carl Anson Cover
Photo Courtesy of Hawaiian Airlines Archives
Born(1893-04-26)26 April 1893
Roxbury, Pennsylvania, US
Died27 November 1944(1944-11-27) (aged 51)
Cause of deathPlane Crash
Known forTest Pilot/Aero-Space Executive
SpouseMina "Minette" Jeanette Miller
Children2
Aviation career
Famous flightsFirst test flight for the DC-1, DC-2, DC-3, DC-4, DC-5
Air force United States Army Air Service
United States Army Air Corps
United States Army Air Forces
BattlesWorld War I
World War II
RankColonel
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