#nc-4

[lonestarflight]

The Naval NC-4 plane at Naval Air Station Rockaway, Queens, New York, before its flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

Date: May 9, 1919

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 112434

[lonestarflight]

Curtiss NC-4 flying boat

UNT Libraries: PCFD_negs-06-13

[americathroughtime]

Available now: 🇺🇸🛩U.S. NAVY-CURTISS FLYING BOAT NC-4 - An Account of the First Transatlantic Flight  ORDER HERE Of the four Navy-Curtiss designed and built flying boats, only the NC-4, after many mechanical failures, was the only plane to complete its mission. Includes 66 black-and-white illustrations

[princetonarchives]

On May 8, 1919, Jim Breese (Princeton University Class of 1909) took off with the crew of this NC-4 seaplane as its Reserve Pilot Engineer to make the world’s first transatlantic flight.