The Emsco B-3 was developed from the B-2, itself based on the Zenith B-1 American Albatross. After two Lockheed Vegas and a Sirius, NR153W was the fourth aircraft that Harold Bromley intended to make a transpacific flight with. This time he set out from Japan. On 14 September 1930 Bromley and Harold Gatty took off from a beach at Sabishiro near Misawa. They returned to Japan with exhaust fumes penetrating the cockpit, and landed nearly unconscious. Sold and renamed Clasina Madge the plane did fly from Japan to Tacoma in 1931, but in multiple stages via Siberia, the Aleutians and Alaska. Photo from: Tacoma Public Library