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The Albree Pigeon-Fraser: The First American Fighter

Vintage Aviation News

Although Palen recovered the fabric on the Pigeon, the ORA never installed a new engine or flew the aircraft, and today the Albree Pigeon-Fraser is suspended inverted from the ceiling of one of the Aerodrome’s hangars for static aircraft.

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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the Lockheed Model 10 Electra

Vintage Aviation News

As Earhart made her final preparations through the remainder of 1936, she had NR16020 stored in a hangar owned by her technical adviser and Hollywood film pilot Paul Mantz at Union Air Terminal in Burbank. Now, the aircraft is presently displayed at the Science Museum in South Kensington, suspended from the ceiling.

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Nothing Small About It

Plane and Pilot

Precisely what the single-engine ceiling is, the team can’t say. “We We just fly the thing around at 1000 feet, so the ceiling, we don’t know. At that point the project is trucked 5 miles to the Prineville Airport where final assembly takes place in a hangar.