Carl Cederström Explained

Carl Gustav Cederström
Birth Date:	5 March 1867
Birth Place:	Södertälje, Sweden
Death Place:	Gulf of Bothnia
Occupation:	Aviator
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Parents:	Maria Cecilia Wennerström Anders Cederström

Friherre baron Carl Gustav Alexander Cederström (5 March 1867  - 29 June 1918) was a pioneering Swedish aviator, known as "the flying Baron".

Biography

He was born on 5 March 1867 to the baron Anders Cederström and the baroness Maria Cecilia Wennerström in Södertälje, Sweden and he was baptized in Stockholm.^[1]

Cederström completed the program at the Blériot flying school in 1910. He became the 74th pilot in the world and the first to receive a certificate in Sweden. The next person in Sweden to qualify was Henrik David Hamilton. Cederström began teaching others to fly himself in 1912, opening a flying school near Linköping.^[2]

Cederström died on 29 June 1918 with Carl Gustaf Krokstedt when their plane crashed in the Gulf of Bothnia.^[3]

Notes and References

1. International Genealogical Index and tombstone
2. Web site: Sweden . 2011-12-29 . In 1912, Carl Cederström started a flying school with four military pupils at Malmen, near Linköping, Sweden. The following summer, he left Malmen, and his hangars were taken over by the Swedish army. . . https://web.archive.org/web/20041022200010/http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=449# . 2004-10-22 . dead .
3. Web site: Cederström . 2011-12-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181130002357/http://www.earlyaviators.com/ecederst.htm . 2018-11-30 . dead .