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Title: First serious attempt - August 31, 1925, US Navy PN-9
Date Created and/or Issued: [1927]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Plates in: The Dole Air Race, 1927 [scrapbook], pg. [23a].
Shows plane in Nawiliwili Harbor, Kauai, inset portrait of crew. "Cmdr John Rodges, Lt. Byron Connell, Otis Stantz + 2 crew members. Ocean landed 200 miles short, northeast of Hawaii - sailed and towed the rest of the way" -- handwritten caption.
2010-3477.
First trans-Pacific flight from San Francisco to Hawaii Aug. 31, 1925. Landed 365 miles from Hawaii, rowed the airplane to Nawiliwili Harbor, Kauai. Crew consisted of: John Rodgers, Byron Connell, Otis Stantz, W. H. Bowlin and S.R. Pope.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; 5 1/4 x 9 1/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001479653CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Transpacific flights.--Photographs
Air pilots--Hawaii--Nawiliwili
Flight crews--Hawaii--Nawiliwili
Seaplanes--Hawaii--Nawiliwili
Leis
Kauai (Hawaii)--Photographs
Nawiliwili (Hawaii)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Portrait photographs
Photograph albums
Place: Hawaii
Nawiliwili
Kauai (Hawaii)
Nawiliwili (Hawaii)

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