Timeline
- 1911 - takes first flying lessons
- 1917 - joins the Aviation Section of Signal Corps
- 1919 - flyer on new airmail route from Washington, D.C. to New York, NY
- 1920 - starts Messer Flying Circus (Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie soon joins)
- 1922 - starts Birmingham Aero Club to sell airplanes
- 1925 - organizes company to sell Dim-A-Lite products
- 1927 - starts Southern Aircraft Corporation (Messer Aeronautical Industries Inc.)
- 1932 - starts The Glenn E. Messer Company
- 1965 - The Glenn E. Messer Company, Inc. begins instrument repair operation in Woodlawn
- 1976 - forms Southern Museum of Flight Foundation
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