Display Status:
This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. It is either on loan or in storage.
Collection Item Summary:
One-half right front view of Fairchild FC-2W2 "Stars and Stripes" (r/n NX 8006) on the ground before being delivered to Antarctica; circa 1928. Harold I. June, chief pilot of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, is posed standing beside the nose of the aircraft.
Collection Item Long Description:
Topic
- Aeronautics
- Airplanes
- Aircraft
- Air pilots