The Bergdoll Wright Brothers airplane at the Franklin Institute science museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Grover Bergdoll Wynnefield, Philadelphia mansion in the 1940s when it was placed for sale. The elaborate carriage house is in the left background. Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia Record.

Grover Cleveland Bergdoll flying his 1911 Wright Brothers airplane over Eagle Field, Delaware County, Pennsylvania in 1912. The site is now the Manoa Shopping Center.

Grover Bergdoll, right, with his brother, Louis J. Bergdoll on Grover’s 1911 Wright Brothers airplane.

Grover Bergdoll often used fake passports to evade capture. When he first tried to return to America as himself, a passport was denied.

Erwin Bergdoll’s championship Benz race car.

Berta and Emma Bergdoll, the influential women in Grover Bergdoll’s life.

The mansion of Bergdoll’s escape and hidden gold in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

A 1909 Bleriot XI airplane with an Anzani engine similar to the engine stolen from the Bergdoll Bleriot.

Worldwide distribution of The Bergdoll Boys.

A 1909 Bleriot XI still being flown at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in New York’s Hudson Valley.

Charles Barth’s Bergdoll Beer Recipe.

90 second read

Louis J. Bergdoll Bergson and his Bleriot XI.

One of the books I’m still reading, American Prometheus, the J. Robert Oppenheimer Story.

The C-46 that crashed in Western New York State in late December, 1951.

Ruby Bryant’s final entry in her diary is dated April 1, 1952.