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"Southern Cross" took off from Oakland Air Port at 8.52 A.M. (Sunday) June 1, 1928. Arrived in Honolulu 27 hours and 28 minutes after (2,139 miles)

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Title: "Southern Cross" took off from Oakland Air Port at 8.52 A.M. (Sunday) June 1, 1928. Arrived in Honolulu 27 hours and 28 minutes after (2,139 miles)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1928
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Shows the monoplane, Southern Cross (Fokker FVIIb-3m NC1985), taking off from Oakland Air Port. Buildings and airplanes in background. Caption below the image reads: "Honolulu Islands to Suva (Fiji Islands) 3,138 miles. Suva to Brisbane (Austrialia) 1700 miles. Brisbane to Sydney, 500 miles. Total 7, 788 miles."
2009-0524.
Southern Cross was Fokker trimotor flown by Australian aviators Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm with Americans Harry Lyon and James Warner as navigator and wireless operator. First transpacific flight, they flew from Oakland, California to Sydney, Australia.
Type: image
Format: Photographs
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; 7 1/4 x 9 3/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001415872CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Oakland Municipal Airport (Oakland, Calif.)--Photographs
Transpacific flights--Photographs
Monoplanes--California--Oakland
Airports--California--Oakland
Oakland (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photograph albums
Place: California
Oakland
Oakland (Calif.)

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