Francis Herbert Goldsborough was a record-holding aviator who died in a plane crash in Vermont on his 20th birthday.
Background
Frank was born as Francis Herbert Goldsborough in Washington, District of Columbia 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.
Education
By the time he was 18 the family was living in New York where he attended Flushing High School in Queens.
Career
On July 20, 1910 but went by the name Frank. Frank"s stepmother was named Gertrude. 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 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.
1910
1930 Secretariat transcontinental airspeed record
1930 United States Census at 4114 75th Street in Queens, New York
1930 Died in crash in Vermont
1930 Frank Herbert Goldsborough.
1930 Eddie August Schneider. 1930 Robert Nietzel Buck.