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1910s–1930s · NO FLIGHT DOCUMENTED ON THIS GROUND
No exhibition flight, barnstormer appearance, or airplane landing at North Liberty or in Liberty Township was found in any record searched — the searches are named in the note, and they cover the barnstorming vocabulary against the town and township expressly. The two county histories cannot carry the item at all: Chapman (1880) and Howard (1907) both predate any possible local flight, Howard by four years before Indiana's first exhibitions — a chronological negative, stated plainly. The region's first recorded airplane flight belongs to South Bend: the airport's own history page credits French aviator René Simon with "the area's first recorded airplane flight in 1911," some fourteen miles northeast — South Bend's whole, printed at pointer size only, to show where the county's first flight actually sits. The residual settler for this negative is the town paper's archive (gap G-W3A-1): a 1920s barnstormer landing in a pasture is exactly the event only the North Liberty News would have carried, and no searchable archive of that paper was reached.
Principal sources: South Bend International Airport history page (secondary, snippet); the search sets named in the note (negative).