Personal letter written February 22, 1944 by Haskell A. Deaton of Plaza Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina, to fellow aviator Ruth Shaw in Houston, Texas. The letter details the contraction of wartime civilian pilot-training contracts, staff assignments among fellow instructors, and Deaton's plan to open new training fields near Atlanta and at Statesville, NC, offering Shaw a partnership role. It offers a firsthand window into the network of small civilian airfields that trained military-bound pilots under the wartime Civilian Pilot Training Program. Project: 218570