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Registration: 1187

Construction Number: 1187

Model Curtiss JN-4D Jenny

Operator: Cradle of Aviation Museum

Airport: Garden City - Mitchel Field AFB (Closed), USA - New York

Photographer: Jon Wickenden

Date Taken: 22/01/2009

Date Submitted: 11/02/2009

This Jenny was the first aircraft owned by Charles Lindbergh. He crashed it and rebuilt it twice over a number of years before selling it on. It was rescued from a pig barn in Iowa and restored, during which time Lindbergh verified it was his old plane.

Picture ID:1158294

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