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Title: Northrop and Boeing watching air tests
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1930
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: Jack Northrop (left) and William E. Boeing watch the test hop of the first Northrop "Alpha" plane at Union Airport (Bob Hope Airport) in Burbank. The low-wing, aluminum Alpha came to be used for both carrying mail and airline passengers. Photo dated: March 19, 1930.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00069790
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Transportation-Aviation-Personalities.
CARL0000073685
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/110637
Subject: Northrop, John Knudsen,--1895-1981
Boeing, William Edward,--1881-1956
Bob Hope Airport (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Northrop aircraft
Airplanes--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Airports--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Businesspeople--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Northrop Corporation
Source: Smith, Robyn.

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