Humberto Aberle

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Humberto Aberle (also Umberto Alejandro Aberle; born August 10, 1891 in Santa Ana ; † February 10, 1970 ibid) was a Salvadoran aviation pioneer and founder of military aviation in Mexico and El Salvador and the first pilot in Central America who carried out a long-haul flight in 1922.

Life

Humberto was born the son of the Neapolitan composer Juan Aberle and his wife Dona Tula P. Aberle in 1891 in the Department of Santa Ana .

In 1906 he began his career as a military person as a cadet at the Escuela Politécnica Militar and was deployed in Guatemala in the same year under the command of General Rodolfo Cristales. June 1908 he was promoted to Sargento Segundo and on October 15 of the same year teniente (lieutenant) of the Salvadoran army .

Humberto Aberle then worked at the Consulate of El Salvador in San Francisco , California until 1917 . On May 1, 1917, he began his military flight training at the Escuela de Aviación de Redwood de California , which he completed on January 4, 1918.

In 1920 he became a test pilot for the Mexican aircraft manufacturer Talleres Nacionales de Construcciones Aeronáuticas (TNCA for short), which was founded in 1915 . On May 24, 1920, Humberto was appointed captain. In mid-1921, Captain Aberle was commissioned to set up the military aviation school in Mexico and to organize the training of the pilots. From January 1922, training began with French Avro double-deckers with 120 hp engines from Le Rhône, which were acquired by the government of Mexico at that time.

On December 16, 1922, Captain Aberle set out on a non-stop record flight, taking off from Tapachula , Mexico and landing six hours later after around 500 kilometers on a meadow on a farm in San Salvador . The Aberle machine was a single-engine, single-seat Lincoln-Standard biplane made by Nebraska Aircraft Corporation . It was the first long-haul flight in its day before Charles Lindbergh began his flight training at Nebraska Aircraft Corporation that year. For the record, Humberto Aberle was awarded the "Cruz del Mérito Militar" on May 3, 1923 by the President of the Republic of El Salvador.

With the establishment of the Salvadoran "Flotilla Aérea Salvadoreña" (Air Force) on March 20, 1923, Humberto Aberle was appointed director of the flight school and on July 14, 1923 director of military aviation. Alongside Domingo Antonio de Lara, Capitán Mayor Humberto Aberle is considered a pioneer in Salvadoran aviation history. Aberle also helped found El Salvador's first airfield, which was inaugurated in Ilopango in 1923 .

On December 4, 1929 Abele founded the Club de Aviación Civil y Reserva de El Salvador together with the aviation enthusiastic General Antonio Claramount Lucero and other aviation enthusiasts , with the aim of promoting new pilots.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ granportalaviacion.com: Short biography of Humberto Aberle ( Memento from December 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish)
personal data
SURNAME Aberle, Humberto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aberle, Umberto Alejandro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Salvadoran aviation pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Ana
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1970
Place of death Santa Ana