Subject: Bellanca airplanes - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Pilot Emil Burgin, Virginia Mills, and navigator Lewis Yancy standing in front of Burgin's Bellanca Monoplane. This photograph is possibly related to the article, "Planes Off in Ohio Race at Sunrise," Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 1928: A1.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: George Haldeman was an American aviator, who in 1928 participated in a transcontinental race from New York to Los Angeles. He was forced to land for oil in New Mexico. The end point of the air race George Haldeman participated in was Mines Field in Los Angeles. Mines Field would soon become what is now Los Angeles International Airport.
Date:: September 14, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of the Bellanca model J Pathfinder monoplane, "Rosemarie," before pilots William Brock and Edward Schlee flew it to break the world's endurance flight record. On the tail is painted "NX 7085" and beneath the wing "661." A hangar building is in the background.
Date:: August 25, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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