11 October 1913

On October 11th, 1913, only 4 days after obtaining his pilot license, Sublieutenant Gheorghe Negel, one of Aurel Vlaicu's good friends, took off in his Farman airplane from Cotroceni airfield in Bucharest for a raid to Targoviste. It was there, the city of Targoviste where he graduated from the Cavalry Military School, where he crashed his plane and lost his life.