Brice Herbert Goldsborough (1891-1927)

Brice Herbert Goldsborough (1891-1927) US Navy Veteran; Aviation Instrument Designer at Sperry Gyroscope and later Pioneer Instrument Company; Died in Attempt to Cross the Atlantic with Frances Wilson Grayson (b. March 28, 1891, Sioux City, Iowa, USA - d. December 23, 1927, between Curtis Field in New York and Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, Canada)

Biography
His son was: Frank H. Goldsborough (1910-1930) a record holding aviator who died in a crash in Vermont. Brice appears in the 1920 Manhattan City Directory living at 6 E87th Street and working at Pioneer Instrument Company which is located at 246 Greenwich Street. His partner is listed as Charles H. Colvin. Walter H. Beech (1891-1950) and Brice H. Goldsborough won the 1926 Ford Reliability Tour. Brice also flew with Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902-1974) aboard the Spirit of St. Louis in test flights from Curtiss Field as an "instrument expert" on: May 13, 1927 for 10 minutes; and May 15, 1927 for 15 minutes. Lindbergh's record breaking flight was on May 20-21, 1927. An anonymous author writes: "On the evening of December 23, 1927 [Frances Wilson Grayson] left from Curtis Field in New York for Harbor Grace, Newfoundland. From there she was planning to make the historic transatlantic flight to London, possibly on Christmas day. The plane, known as the Dawn was to be flown by a very experienced aviator Lieutenant Oskar Omdal of the Norwegian Navy, though Frances was to have taken some turns at the controls. In addition to Frances, the crew included a navigator, Brice Goldsborough and a radio engineer, Mr. Frank Koehler. Sadly, they never reached Newfoundland and despite reports of radio messages were never found. Frances was the fifth woman to fail to achieve the transatlantic flight, which was ultimately accomplished by Amelia Earhart in 1928, who was exclusively a passenger at that time." The bodies and the airplane were never recovered.