Charles H. Hubbell Clevelander Charles H. Hubbell is undoubtedly
the world's best known artist-historian of the Air Age. An
autographed newspaper clipping of Charles H. Hubbell. Caption
reads: ''TRADES PLANE PAINTINGS FOR FLYING TIME. Charles H.
Hubbell, 2095 Elmwood Avenue, Lakewood, finds his pictures of
airplanes popular at Cleveland Airport and has obtained more
than 200 hours of piloting time in exchange for them Excerpts
from Aviation's Pictorial Historian by G. Reiss, Charles H.
Hubbell 1899-1971 by B. Wilson Charles Hubbell was born in
Cleveland, Ohio in 1899. As a boy of 10 he became interested in
aviation when a friend gave him an aeronautical magazine and he
became an avid model airplane builder. Before he completed high
school, he had designed and built many models as well as a man-
sized glider. He graduated from the Cleveland School of Art in
1923. He traded his early paintings for flight time, soloing in
1925. He received CAA pilots License number 9792. Charles worked
as a commercial artist for