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Frances Wilson Grayson Frances Wilson Grayson (c. 1892 – c. December 23, 1927) was an American woman who disappeared flying to Newfoundland just before her attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean. She was a niece of President Woodrow Wilson.Curtis Field in New York for

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, Newfoundland. Her plan was to leave from Newfoundland on a record setting transatlantic flight to London on

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day. Her plane, ''The Dawn'' was to be flown by Oskar Omdal, a lieutenant in the Norwegian Navy. Grayson may have planned to fly the plane in shifts with him. Goldsborough would have been the navigator and Frank Koehler was to be the radio operator. Her plane never reached Newfoundland and sank in the water. There were several accounts of receiving radio messages from the plane when it was in distress. The bodies and the airplane were never recovered.

Family

Brice's son was Frank Goldsborough (1910–1930), who was a record-setting aviator who also died in a crash.

Commemoration

In 1928, the Ontario Surveyor General named a number of lakes in the northwest of the province to honour aviators who had perished during 1927, mainly in attempting oceanic flights. p 14. These include Goldsborough Lake (), Grayson Lake () and Omdahl Lake () which are all found in close proximity to each other in the

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; December 26, 1927; New York, December 25, 1927 (Associated Press) Mrs.

Frances Wilson Grayson Frances Wilson Grayson (c. 1892 – c. December 23, 1927) was an American woman who disappeared flying to Newfoundland just before her attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean. She was a niece of President Woodrow Wilson.Newfoundland, was preparing to undertake her fourth attempt within three months to fly the Atlantic in her Sikorsky amphibian plane, the Dawn. *

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; December 26, 1927, page 1; "Grayson Plane Radioed 'Something Wrong' Friday Night; Then the Signaling Ceased, Silent for 54 Hours Since; Probably Lost Off The

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Coast In A Storm" *

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; December 26, 1927, page 2; "Goldsborough a Veteran" *

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; December 26, 1927, page 1; "Goldsborough's Wife Spends His Christmas Gift To Pay For Plane Search For The Dawn" *December 26, 1927; Navigator Brice Goldsborough ... *Frederick Post;

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; December 28, 1927; "Hope Dwindling in Plane Search" *

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; January 2, 1928; "Broken Dawn" *

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; March 2, 1928, page 08; "Widow Of Aviator Denies Dawn Story" *

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; May 12, 1930
"American Boy
A flight from New York to Los Angeles, begun on Monday and completed Sunday, is not in itself remarkable. But if the flyer be the young son of a crack airman who met spectacular death; and if the boy seeks a "junior speed record," public fancy is captured. Last week Frank Goldsborough, 19, son of the late Brice Goldsborough, crossed the U. S. in 34 hr. 3 min. flying time, in a biplane named American Boy. ..." *

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; July 28, 1930
"Goodwill Tour
In the course of a tour of 100 smalltown Exchange Clubs, to demonstrate the dependability of aviation for passenger travel, Frank Goldsborough, 19, son of the late Brice Goldsborough, took off from Cleveland for

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In the Green Mountains, he plowed into a peasoup fog. ..." {{DEFAULTSORT:Goldsborough, Brice 1880s births 1927 deaths Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in Canada Missing aviators Missing person cases in Canada Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1927

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