| Aircraft | |
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| Registration / Serial: | NC974Y |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Lockheed 3 Air Express |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Lockheed 3 Air Express |
| Aircraft Version: | Lockheed 3 Air Express Special |
| C/n (msn): | 130 |
| Location | |
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| Location: | Not known |
| Region / Country: | Unknown State, United States |
| Photo Date: | 24 April 1934 to 31 December 1942 |
| Photo from: | AirHistory.net Photo Archive |
| Photo ID: | 387261 |
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Built for transatlantic flight by Laura Ingalls but Amelia Earhart became the first female to solo across the Atlantic instead in 1932. Ingalls then flew the aircraft around South America and over the Andes in 1934. It was NR974Y then and had the cabin windows faired over. It passed to other operators and is reported destroyed in a wind storm in Nevada in 1942. Ingalls, meanwhile, had developed outspoken Nazi sympathies and was arrested as a German agent. Photo from: Browning Studio / New-York Historical Society This photo was added on 30 August 2021, and has since been viewed 587 times. |