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Carl Gustav Alexander Cederström (5 March 1867 – 29 June 1918) was a pioneering

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aviator, known as "the flying Baron".

Biography

He was born on 5 March 1867 to Anders Cederström and Maria Cecilia Wennerström in

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, Sweden and he was baptized in

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. Cederström completed the program at the Blériot flying school in 1910. He became the 74th pilot in the world and the first to receive a certificate in Sweden. The next person in Sweden to qualify was Henrik David Hamilton. Cederström began teaching others to fly himself in 1912, opening a

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near

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. Cederström died on 29 June 1918 with Carl Gustaf Krokstedt when their plane crashed in the

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