She married Charles Blair (I've never heard of him before) who had this seaplane airline, and she helped run the airline business in Saint Croix, and edited a magazine, but later sold them to spend more time in Glengarriff in Ireland.
Thanks Doug!
Sunday, May 03, 2026
for those of us that grew up watching OLD movies, Maureen O'Hara was a familiar star. Famous for starring in 5 John Wayne movies, and 2 Jimmy Stewart movies, and being an Irish BEAUTY, but I just learned she married a retired USAF general (similar to Jimmy Stewart) who had a very smart business, flying amphibs between the Virgin Islands
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Beautiful lady, and a wonderful person from all I've read. She was also in the original Parent Trap, and was most lovely in that one in her 40s.
ReplyDeleteCharles Blair bought a a pair of converted Sunderland flying boats, one correctly converted to a Sandringham and named Beachcomber and one that was not a proper Sandringham conversion that he couldn't put into passenger service. Upon Charles Blair's untimely death both ended up in the UK, Beachcomber is in the Solent Sky Museum in Southampton (southern England), the other was bought by Edward Hulton as a personal toy and was kept, amongst other places, at Calshot Spit, on Southampton Water. Edward Hulton sold it eventually to Kermit Weeks who flew it back to Orlando where it now resides in his Fantasy of Flight Museum.
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