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Goldsborough was born in Washington, D.C.. His father was Brice Goldsborough, who died in a plane crash as Frances Wilson Grayson's navigator on an attempted crossing of the Atlantic Ocean from Newfoundland. Frank's stepmother was named Gertrude. By the time he was 18 the family was living in New York where he attended Flushing High School in Queens.

Transcontinental speed record

Goldsborough held the junior transcontinental air speed record until his death. In April and May 1930 he wrote a series of exclusive first-person accounts for The New York Times about his exploits in the National Air Tour and his breaking of the transcontinental air speed record.

Death

Goldsborough's plane crashed in Vermont on July 15, 1930 only a day short of his 20th birthday. His passenger, Don Mockler, walked away from the crash, dazed but alive, and went for help. Goldsborough was trapped in the wreckage with a head injury for 18 hours before he was rescued, alive but not conscious. All his teeth had been knocked out. He was carried away by rescuers on a makeshift stretcher made from a parachute to the home of Harry C. Jenkins.

Goldsborough died on July 16, 1930, at Putnam Memorial Hospital in Bennington on his 20th birthday, without regaining consciousness.^[1]

Funeral

He was buried on July 19, 1930 at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. Charles Lindbergh sent flowers. His body was moved by his stepmother and reburied on 30 July 1930 to Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, Westchester County, New York. His stepmother, Gertrude Jacobi Goldsborough, and her mother Anna Marie Hoehn Jacobi are buried there as well.

Timeline

Junior transcontinental air speed record holders

See also

References

1. ^¹{{cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Goldsborough Crashes on Vermont Mountain. Party Seeks Young Flier Pinned Under Plane |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1930/07/15/archives/goldsborough-crashes-on-vermont-mountain-party-seeks-young-flier.html |quote=Bennington, Vermont; July 14, 1930. Frank Goldsborough, 19 year-old aviator of Jackson Heights, Long Island, who recently established the junior transcontinental record, crashed into a peak of the Green Mountains eight ... |publisher=New York Times |date=July 15, 1930 |accessdate=2007-09-25 }}
2. ^{{cite news |first=Frank |last=Goldsborough |authorlink=Frank Goldsborough |coauthors= |title=Goldsborough Ends Flight With Record. New York Boy Lands at Los Angeles, Cutting 14 Hours Off Junior Coast-to-Coast Mark. Braved Bad Weather. Youth Spent 34 Hours and 3 Minutes in Air on Trip From Westfield, New Jersey Former Record Was 48 Hours. Los Angeles, California|publisher=New York Times |date=May 5, 1930 }}
3. ^{{cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=2 Die as Planes Crash at Field. Eddie Schneider, Who Flew At 15, Is Killed When His Craft And Navy Trainer Collide. Passenger Also Victim. US Ship Is Landed Safely At Floyd Bennett Airport Despite Damaged Wings. |quote=Eddie Schneider, who started flying when he was 15 years old and set a junior transcontinental record in 1930 at the age of 18[...] |publisher=New York Times |date=December 24, 1940 }}
4. ^{{cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Boy flyer set to try at transcontinental record. |quote= |publisher=Decatur Daily Review |date=September 27, 1930 }}
5. ^Decatur Daily Review, Decatur, Illinois; September 29, 1930; Boy aviator in quest of record.
6. ^Decatur Daily Review, Decatur, Illinois; October 1, 1930;
7. ^Decatur Daily Review, Decatur, Illinois; October 5, 1930; Boy flier plans return air trip.

Early years