[Bellanca Skyrocket "Miss Veedol" at Boeing Field]

Photograph of "Miss Veedol," a Bellanca Skyrocket CH-400 aircraft (tail number NR796W), parked at Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington, October 13, 1931.

Inscription: "Kirwin. Seattle. 1931."

Inscription on verso: "Clyde E. Pangborn and Hugh Herndon's Bellanca plane equipped with landing gear and ready to start to New York to complete their around the world – first to cross the Pacific Ocean – flight. They had dropped the original landing gear in the ocean. Picture taken at Boeing Airport, Seattle, Wash. Oct., 13, 1931."