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
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph appears with the article, "Plane Thief Net Spread," Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb 1936: A3. The owner of the plane, Dwight F. Peterson of Gardena, reported the plane missing on Sunday morning. A note on the hangar door said the plane would be returned in 10 days. The plane was smashed into a hillside in Mint Canyon, the propeller broken and the fuselage bent. With mountains visible in the background, the small white plane sits in a pile of brush, its nose on the ground. One of the wings has the serial code NCI5630 in large black letters. Text from negative sleeve: 3687 - Dicer- Lost Plane - crashed in Mint Canyon [stamped:] Feb 14 1936 Text from newspaper caption: Its propeller shattered and fuselage bent, this little plane, stolen from Dycer Airport, yesterday lay on a hillside in the Mint Canyon area while police hunted for the thief who escaped after crashing.
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