Southern Cross in museum, Brisbane, Australia, 1958
Contributed by Paris Cape Historical Society
Item 25468
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The Southern Cross, the plane flown across the Pacific in 1928 by Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm with Harry Lyon of Paris Hill as navigator and American James Warner as radioman, is enshrined at the Brisbane Airport Museum in Queensland, Australia on the 30th anniversary of the historic flight.
The plane and crew of four flew from Oakland, California, to Hawaii, then to Fiji and on to Australia in the first trans-Pacific flight.
The Fokker tri-motor was adapted to carry a huge amount of fuel for the flight.
Other Information
- Title: Southern Cross in museum, Brisbane, Australia, 1958
- Creation Date: 1958
- Subject Date: 1958
- Town: Brisbane
- Media: Photograph
- Collection: Lloyd Gates Collection
- Object Type: Image
For more information about this item, contact:
Paris Cape Historical Society
19 Park Street, South Paris, ME 04281
(207) 743-2462
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LC Subject Headings
Fokker airplanes
Brisbane Airport Museum
Transpacific flights
Firsts
Southern Cross (Airplane)
Flight radio operators
Flight navigators
People
Lyon , Henry Ware
Warner, James
Smith, Charles Kingford
Ulm, Charles
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