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

Data Source

National Air and Space Museum Archives

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photographer

Fairchild Corporation

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Date

Circa 1928

Repository Loc.

National Air and Space Museum, Archives Division, MRC 322, Washington, DC, 20560

Type

Photographs

Local number

NASM-9A13753