Photo #: NH 85460
USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser # 4)
In San Francisco Bay, California, in January 1911, after she
had been fitted with a temporary wooden deck in preparation for
Eugene Ely's airplane landing attempt. Ely landed his Curtiss
pusher biplane on board the ship on 18 January, the first airplane
landing on a warship.
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1977.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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