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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:
Decler & Coriell Inc.

Frank A. Coriell of Livingston, an aviation engineer and service man since 1922, who was associated with many of this country's early air age heroes, died of a heart attack at his home at age 62.
Mr. Coriell was Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's engineer for the 1927 solo flight from New York to Paris in the Spirit of St. Louis. He checked the plane out at Teterboro Airport before its departure from Floyd Bennett Field.
Mr. Coriell worked on such aircraft as the endurance record-breaker "Question Mark," Amelia Earhart's "Friendship," The Kingsford-Smith "Southern Cross," the "Josephine Ford," which Admiral Richard E. Byrd flew over the North Pole and Byrd's ocean-spanning "America." He was long associated with Clarence Chamberlain.
Born in New Market, Mr. Coriell grew up there and in Plainfield. After serving in World War I, he began learning about aircraft at Teterboro Airport. In 1923, he was trained at an Air Corps school and became an inspector for the government at aircraft manufacturing plants.
His next job was with Anthony Fokker, who hired him as chief inspector and production manager. During this association, Mr. Coriell helped produce the record-breaking aircraft already mentioned.
He joined Bellanca Aircraft in 1929, heading its assembly operations. In 1933 he joined Sikorsky Aircraft and later supervised consolidation of the production systems of the Chance-Vought Corp. and Sikorsky. He also served as planning manager for Fleetwings, Inc.
For the last nine years, he was assistant treasurer and sales engineer for the Service Machine Co., Elizabeth, a firm that makes tools for the aircraft industry. During World War II, he was procurement manager for the Breeze Corp.
He lived in Rutherford about 25 years and in Livingston for the last 13.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Carrie E. Coriell, five daughters, two sons and 18 grandchildren.