[John A. McCurdy flying Aerial Experiment Association Aerodrome No. 4 "Silver Dart"]

Photograph of John A. McCurdy piloting the Aerial Experiment Association's Aerodrome No. 4 "Silver Dart" aircraft, Baddeck, Nova Scotia, February 23, 1909. The image is autographed by John A. McCurdy.

Typed caption: "Silver Dart in its first successful flight at Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Feb. 23, 1909. It was the first aeroplane to fly in Canada and the first flown anywhere in the British Commonwealth with a British subject at the controls."

Inscription on verso: "Hon. J. A. D. McCurdy."