Jack Frye, Aviation Legend, President Founder Standard Airlines, Aero Corporation, Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., TWA, Trans World Airline, Debbie Greer, 1920’s

Jack & Helen Frye Story – the Camelot Years of TWA

The Frye Legacy

A Lifetime of Accomplishment

TWA Jack Frye Standard Airlines

By Randall Reynolds

Brand New Website Which Visually Documents the Lives of Jack & Helen Frye

My purpose in creation of this website is to not repeat narrative found in my novel ‘the Jack and Helen Frye Story’ but rather provide readers with images and text to complement the book

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Burdett Airport in about 1924-25 (above) owned by Burdett Fuller and Jack Frye

(Above) we see Jack Frye in the air over orange groves and Los Angeles in about (1925)

The following images courtesy of retired Judge Burt Cosgrove at Albuquerque New Mexico. Burt was gracious in sharing his memorabilia of early Arizona aviation, these photographs give us a window in time of Standard Airlines at Tucson Arizona. Will add captions as time permits

(Images shown above and below) show a Standard Airlines transport at Tucson after a landing wheel collapse likely from a hard landing. Just look at the massive engine

(Below) portrait image of Jack Frye, President Founder of Standard Airlines (about 1924)

Images (above and below) were captured at Tucson Municipal Airport (now Davis-Monthan A.F.B.). The plane and its passengers made many landing and departures on August 4, 1929 at Tucson, with flight originating at Los Angeles. The lady in patterned dress (front and center) is movie starlet Priscilla Dean. The tall man in suit (7th from left) is Standard Airlines founder and president Jack Frye. The lady in white with scarf around her head (5th from right) is famous aviatrix and 13 Hollywood Black Cat member Gladys Ingle, and Jack’s wife Debbie Greer Frye, is (5th from right). Additional passengers who are thought to appear in the above image but unfortunately are yet to be identified are Harry O. Steiger, Jack Dean, J. S. Dawley, W. L. Beebe, H. C. Eller, G. Nuckols, A. W. Poole, F. W. Oakes, and Ernest V. Moore

Movie starlet and guest of honor for day is Priscilla Dean (seen above) unidentified is Daisy Richter wife of Jack’s partner Paul Richter

Jack Frye and first wife Debbie D. Greer are shown (above) August 4, 1929 hosting the inauguration of first Fokker tri-motor luxury passenger airliner service for Standard Airlines California-Arizona-Texas route. On the same date Standard added Douglas Arizona and El Paso Texas to its service route. Three new planes were put into service on this hot summer day christened the Californian, Arizonan, and Texan. Two years earlier on November 28, 1927, Aero Corporation of California (Standard) launched the first westbound passenger service- Los Angeles-Phoenix-Tucson. Jack Frye, served as president of both companies and was also founder along with Walter A. Hamilton and Paul E. Richter. Frye was pilot of the November 28, 1927 inaugural single-engine Fokker flight and the flight noted here. This all said, according to Jack’s sister Sunny, Debbie has never been given full credit for her selfless support of Jack and his airline endeavors. As to this Debbie’s family has been most supportive of this work and conveying Debbie’s sojourn with Jack. Images (above) were scanned at meeting with retired Judge Burt Cosgrove at Albuquerque New Mexico. Burt was gracious in sharing his memorabilia of early Arizona aviation

Debbie Greer and Jack Frye (1926) at Burdett Field, Western Avenue & 104th, Los Angeles, California (Inglewood)

Brand New Website Which Visually Documents the Lives of Jack & Helen Frye

This is the ‘NEW’ Sedona Legend Helen Frye – the Camelot Years of TWA website, the original rendition launched in 2003 is no longer supported by host Yahoo GeoCities and has been discontinued. The original website will be rebuilt within these pages. The new revised overview title is now Sedona Frye TWA Story’ with world URL www.sedonatwa.com. This effort is managed and owned by Sedona Legend Publishing. Herein you will find a historic perspective of Sedona that was nearly lost to time itself, the real HISTORY of Red Rock State Park a rich and valuable legacy which must not ever be forgotten or swept under the carpet, a showcase of treasured information and documentation. Sedona’s history with Transcontinental & Western Air (TWA) one of the world’s largest and most beloved airlines known as the ‘Airline to the Stars’ and how this association helped put Sedona Arizona on the map! Red Rock State Park known as a ‘Crown Jewel’ of the Arizona State Park system and one-time private playground of the rich and famous. Originally owned and discovered in 1941 by one of the most glamorous couples in America and one of the greatest aviation legends this country has ever known! An association so powerful the original identity of the property will always be known as the Frye ‘Smoke Trail Ranch’ and the ‘TWA Ranch’ at Sedona’. Dare to delve beneath the surface and discover the hidden and forgotten history of one of the most pristine, beautiful, and priceless real estate parcels of the Southwestern United States and the legendary couple who owned it!

This website serves to offer readers of the book ‘Jack & Helen Frye Story – the Camelot Years of TWA’ with images that complement the biography. Photos were not included in the publication because of copywrite restrictions. An effort will be made to not include a lot of repetitive narrative on these pages as this can be found in the book. This website will be updated and refined as time allows, and as well, the layout will be improved in an easy to navigate format. This Entry Page features the Fryes at the onset of their relationship (as covered in the book). Please click the following link to purchase the Biography-Novel-Love-Story Jack & Helen Frye Story – the Camelot Years of TWA available on Amazon in Soft Cover or Kindle. The presentation herein is best viewed on a Personal Computer,.

The Sedona Legend Web Site is a copyrighted historical photo enhanced narrative presented for educational and entertainment purposes, some materials may be displayed in regard to the United States Fair Use Act. Sedona Legend was envisioned and created to provide Red Rock State Park visitors with a comprehensive historic overview of the Jack and Helen Frye Deer-Lick and Smoke Trail Ranches. This web portal is totally non-profit and generates no income, nor does it seek, or has it ever accepted, a single donation, it is an independent venture,.

Sedona Legend is encouraged by the many friends of Jack and Helen Frye and was in fact launched at Red Rock State Park when volunteering for (two) 6-month sojourns, this presentation is not a disconnected effort. A gracious thank you to the Frye and Varner families for invaluable support and Red Rock State Park staff and volunteers for their enthusiasm, also thanks to the TWA Museum at Kansas City for their dedication to Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. (Trans World Airlines)

Formerly this effort was called Sedona Legend Helen Frye (the Jack & Helen Frye Story)

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Standard Airlines – Aero Corporation 1920’s

Transcontinental & Western Air TWA 1930’s

TWA President Jack Frye Northrop Gamma 2D

Western Air Express

Transcontinental & Western Air TWA 1940’s

A-Broad With Eleven Yanks – A Memorial to Boeing Superfortress 42-24698

TWA President Jack Frye Executive Plane Lockheed Electra 12A

TWA President Jack Frye Executive Plane Lockheed Electra 12A Robinson