Maui County HI Archives News.....MAUI BOY, HANK MOSSMAN, RETURNS TO HAWAII AFTER 38 YEAR ABSENCE January 16, 1948
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UNKNOWN NEWSPAPER January 16, 1948
  One of Hawaii’s adventuring sons is home again today after 38 years away 
from these islands.
  He is Henry A. (Hank) Mossman of Wailuku, Maui, who left Hawaii as a boy 
aboard a four masted schooner in 1910 and returned Sunday via plane.
  During his absence, Mr. Mossman traveled to Chile and throughout the United 
States. He fought in two wars and grew up with the infant U. S. aviation 
industry until today he is chief mechanic in charge of maintenance at United 
Air Lines’ Honolulu station.
  He married in 1919 and today has four children, three married girls, 
Dorothy, Betty and Jacqueline, a son, William Lloyd, and a daughter, Marion, 
who will come to Honolulu with Mrs. Mossman late this summer.
  After his arrival in Washington state from Chile, Mr. Mossman was in the 
logging business. He also served in the 2nd Washington regiment of the 
national guard against Pancho Villa on the Mexican border.
  He joined the army in 1916 for World War I serving as an instructor for 
mechanics and technicians until 1919. 
  He was active during the first years of aviation and spent years of 
barnstorming flying throughout North and South Dakota, Iowa, Wisconsin and 
Minnesota.
  He assisted in the development of the air mail service from 1920 to 1921 and 
in the development of night flying until 1927 when he joined the Boeing Air 
Transport Co., one of the forerunners of United Air Lines.
  From August, 1930, Mr. Mossman was in Chicago with Boeing and later United 
Air Lines until his assignment and first return to Honolulu this month.
  Among his family here are his sisters Mrs. Doris Keppeler, girls advisor at 
McKinley high school; Mrs. Blossom Nary, vice principal of Kamehameha 
preparatory school and Violet Mossman.


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