Chauncey Milton "Chance" Vought (February 26, 1890 in

Long Island, New York Long Island is a densely populated island in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of New York, part of the New York metropolitan area. With over 8 million people, Long Island is the most populous island in the United States and the 18th ...

– July 25, 1930) was an American aviation pioneer and engineer, who was the co-founder of the Lewis and Vought Corporation with Birdseye Lewis. Born on

, he attended the

Pratt Institute Pratt Institute is a private university with its main campus in Brooklyn, New York (state), New York. It has a satellite campus in Manhattan and an extension campus in Utica, New York at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. The school was ...

, New York University (where he joined Kappa Sigma), and the University of Pennsylvania. He died from sepsis. He was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1989.

References

External links

*
Chance Vought at the National Aviation Hall of FameChance Vought in August 1912 at the controls of a Wright Model B
American aerospace engineers Aviation pioneers 1890 births 1930 deaths

Chance M. Vought Chauncey Milton "Chance" Vought (February 26, 1890 in Long Island, New York – July 25, 1930) was an American aviation pioneer and engineer, who was the co-founder of the Vought, Lewis and Vought Corporation with Birdseye Lewis. Born on Long Isl ...

National Aviation Hall of Fame inductees People from Long Island Deaths from sepsis 20th-century American engineers Pratt Institute alumni New York University alumni University of Pennsylvania alumni {{aviation-bio-stub