Zenith Albatross Z-12 front view

1928 photo of front view of Zenith Albatross Z-12 with people lined up under the wings of the airplane. Prior to 1927, Zenith Corporation manufactured farm implements in Midway City, California, United States. After learning of American aviator Charles Lindbergh's famed May 20–21, 1927 first solo transatlantic flight via non-stop fixed-wing aircraft flight between America and mainland Europe, Three months later, by August 1927, Zenith Aircraft Corporation built a huge, lightweight tri-motor aircraft named Schofield Albatross in a hangar/factory at Midway City Airport. the Zenith Albatross Z-12 eventually was sold to Hollywood and used to represent a crashed Fokker in the 1928 film Conquest directed by filmmaker Roy Del Ruth. Zenith manufactured a second airplane, the Zenith Albatross Z-6, before the 1930s Great Depression affected the corporation and Zenith went back to manufacturing farm equipment in 1932. |Source =.gov/pictures from Miscellaneous Items in High Demand |Date = 1928 |Author = L. G. |Permission = Rights Advisory:. |other_versions =

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1928

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L. G. |Permission = Rights Advisory:. |other_versions =

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