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Title: Sirius flight tests in Burbank
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: A Lockheed 8 Sirius is about to land during a series of flight tests held at Union Airport (Bob Hope Airport) in Burbank. The Sirius is a single engine, propeller driven monoplane designed and built by Jack Northrop and Gerard Vultee in 1929, at the request of Charles Lindbergh. Two similar versions of the plane were built for the United States Air Force, one mostly made of wood with fixed landing gear, the other made of metal skin with a retractable landing gear. The plane's intended role was for utility transport. Photo dated: November 19, 1929.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00069742
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Transportation-Aviation-Airplanes.
CARL0000073594
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/110172
Subject: Bob Hope Airport (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Airplanes--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Airports--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Northrop, John Knudsen,1895-1981
Vultee, Jerry,1900-1938
Lindbergh, Charles A.(Charles Augustus),1902-1974
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
Source: Smith, Robyn.

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