In front of the Coast Guard hangar at Floyd Bennett Field. The source gives the same 6 July 1940 date for this as Rudy Arnold's other shots of this aircraft, but the special paint makes clear it was likely taken in February 1941, towards the end of its flight through the Americas. Rios Montenegro and Rivery Ortiz arrived at NOP on 4 February 1941 and departed for Havana via Miami one week later. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

Lt Juan Rios Montenegro and Sgt Frank Media were happy to turn their plane around for Rudy Arnold's camera. With Oscar Rivery Ortiz, Rios Montenegro made a Pan-American flight through 22 countries in this aircraft between October 1940 and February 1941. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

The Cuban navy, then the Marina de Guerra Constitucional, used this aircraft - not a DGA-8 - for a grand tour of the Americas starting on 12 October 1940. It is seen in New York earlier in 1940. Aviation photographer Rudy Arnold was based at Floyd Bennett Field and this is the north side of the airport, with the old Mill Basin Bridge visible on the far left. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution