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Wright Bros original airplane "Kitty Hawk", 1of3 crates, unloaded from USS Palau at Bayonne-NY Naval Shipyard annex on Operation Homecoming, London to DC, Nov 19, 1948
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Wright Bros original airplane "Kitty Hawk", 1of3 crates, unloaded from USS Palau at Bayonne-NY Naval Shipyard annex on Operation Homecoming, London to DC, Nov 19, 1948

The original Wright Brothers' aeroplane, the 1903 "Kitty Hawk", 1 of 3 crates being unloaded from the USS Palau (CVE-122) at the New York Naval Shipyard annex in Bayonne, NJ on November 19, 1948 on Operation Homecoming, enroute from London, England to Washington DC, for permanent exhibition in the US National Museum (the Smithsonian). 2 of the 3 crates were reported to have been originally built by Orville Wright (see news report, pdf page 45 of 254).

Date
1948-11-19
Photographer / author
"Patricia Williams"
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
image
Original size
1,699 × 1,344 pixels

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"Wright Bros original airplane "Kitty Hawk", 1of3 crates, unloaded from USS Palau at Bayonne-NY Naval Shipyard annex on Operation Homecoming, London to DC, Nov 19, 1948" (1948-11-19). "Patricia Williams", via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wright_Bros_original_airplane_%22Kitty_Hawk%22,_1of3_crates,_unloaded_from_USS_Palau_at_Bayonne-NY_Naval_Shipyard_annex_on_Operation_Homecoming,_London_to_DC,_Nov_19,_1948.png

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