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Title: Jet leaves Van Nuys port in flight to set record
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator: Dean, Gordon
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1965
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph caption dated May 21, 1965 reads, "Record breaking run - Jack Conroy, second from left, and Clay Lacy, right, point out route followed in their Lear jet executive plane today in a new speed record attempt for private jet planes. Checking out the map are passengers Timothy Conroy, 13, left; Billy Conroy, 11, and Barbara Conroy, 14."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00111300
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d011_f5_i6
CARL0005257224
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/45823
Subject: Aeronautics--California--Los Angeles
Children--California--Los Angeles
Air pilots--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Aeronautics--Records
World records
Learjet aircraft
Van Nuys (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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