Wiley Hardeman Post first saw an aircraft, a Curtiss-Wright Pusher, in 1913, in Lawton, Oklahoma. Though he was only 15 years old, post enrolled in the Sweeney Automobile and Aviation School in ...

Will Rogers and Wiley Post, icons of Depression-era America, were killed in a plane crash in the northern tip of Alaska on August 15, 1935, while seeking a mail route to Russia.

“BARROW, ALASKA — An airplane crash at the ‘top of the world’ today had taken the lives of two world-famed figures — the beloved humorist Will Rogers and the aerial world girdler Wiley Post.

POINT BARROW, Alaska, Aug. 16, 1935 (UP) - Will Rogers, the cowboy humorist, and Wiley Post, 'round-the-world flier, were killed at 8:18 P.M. Thursday (2:18 A.M. Friday, New York time) when Post's ...

Washington, Aug. 16, (AP) Pilot Joe Crosson of the Alaska Airways was returning to Fairbanks, Alaska, tonight with the bodies of Will Rogers and Wiley Post, killed in a plane crash near Point Barrow.