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Galvin Flying Service celebrates 75 years

The year 1930 might not have been the best time to launch an aviation-services business.

January 31, 2007

The year 1930 might not have been the best time to launch an aviation-services business. The Great Depression had the American economy wallowing, and fortunes were still being lost. Still, 26-year-old Jim Galvin, a Coast Guard veteran and aviation enthusiast, was a born thrill-seeker. In the early 1920s, he and two Coast Guard buddies became the first to ride motorcycles across the U.S., a feat documented in national newspapers.

It was while chasing rumrunners off the East Coast that Galvin first became enamored of aviation. He would watch the airplanes flying smoothly above his wildly pitching cutter and think, “I should be up there in the beautiful sky.” After leaving the Coast Guard, he learned to fly, moved to Seattle and saved enough of his Boeing salary (50 cents an hour) to buy his first airplane, a Hisso-powered Swallow.

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