Fred Hammerstrom

Fred Hammerstrom
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Fred Hammerstrom was the owner of Mount Vernon Gliderport and a flight instructor for both sailplanes and powered aircraft.

He taught Bree Gravengood to soar and passed her to fly solo using aero tows. He also travelled to Spearfish Lake to give her instruction in auto tows on her home runway.

He'd taken Jackie Gravengood through the traiining to qualify as an instructor so she could supervise Bree's flying until she could get her license.^RFW1

He signed Bree off for her power student license and her glider license on her sixteenth birthday,^RFW21 and continued as her flight instructor until she got her private pilot's license.^RFW36