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Title: Sailors prepare the 10-P-6, a P2Y-1 Navy seaplane, San Francisco, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: January 1934
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Six Navy Planes Fueled for Hop to Honolulu; Take-off today Harbinger of Battle of five Nations to Control Transoceanic Air Trade," 10 Jan. 1934: 1. This article reports the flight of 6 P2Y-1 aircraft on the first non-stop formation from San Francisco (Mare Island, San Pablo Bay) to Pearl Harbor by squadron VP-10. The planes were named sequentially from 10-P-1 through 10-P-6.
Sailor in the cockpit of a seaplane, identified as the 10-P-6 (a model P2Y-1), an officer standing on the plane and an officer and another man standing next to the plane.
Text from negative sleeve: U.S. Navy, Air Corps, Airplanes, P2Y-1
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4241
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Seaplanes--American--United States
P2Y-1 (Seaplane)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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