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Title: Travel Air "Mystery" plane
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1931
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: A Travel Air "Mystery S" plane in a hangar at Union Airport (Bob Hope Airport) in Burbank. In 1929, this sleek little black and red Model-R mono-plane was flown to Cleveland from Wichita just before the National Air Races and was immediately placed in a hangar and covered with a canvas tarp. This secrecy resulted in the plane being nicknamed the "Mystery Ship." Photo dated: March 2, 1931.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00069797
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Transportation-Aviation-Airplanes.
CARL0000073692
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/110644
Subject: Bob Hope Airport (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Travel Air aircraft
Airplanes--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Airports--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Hangars--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Travel Air (Firm)

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