English: Possibly the first airplane in Allentown, being taken off a flatbed railroad car at Third and Chestnut street, then a railroad siding in September 1910.

On September 23d, 1910, Glenn Curtiss, an aviation pioneer flew his plane, the "June Bug" over Allentown and Lehigh Country. Curtiss used Nineteenth Street as a runway, took off heading southwards and flew over the Grandstand which was crowded with people attending the Allentown Fair.

His destination was Philadelphia, but his engine has problems with faulty fuel oil and he had to land in a farmers' field just six miles south of where he took off. Later Curtiss told the press that aviation would never catch on in the Lehigh Valley, there were simply too many hills in the area.