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Registration: N8006

Construction Number: 140

Code Number: NX8006

Model Fairchild FC-2

Operator: Virginia Aviation Museum

Airport: Richmond International (RIC / KRIC), USA - Virginia

Photographer: Kev Slade

Date Taken: 12/04/2004

Date Submitted: 10/09/2008

Named "Stars and Stripes" this was the first American aircraft to fly over the Antarctic on 15 January 1929. It is on loan from the National Air and Space Museum.

Picture ID:1129687

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