DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 82737
First airplane landing on a warship, 18 January 1911
Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher biplane nears the landing platform
on USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser # 4), during the
morning of 18 January 1911. The ship was then anchored in San
Francisco Bay, California.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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