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[Curtiss Model D aircraft landing on USS Pennsylvania]
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2007-09-24_image_211
Source
The William S. Luckey Aviation Collection (2007-09-24), Box 1, Folder 19
Description
Photograph of a Curtiss Model D aircraft, piloted by Eugene Ely, landing on the USS Pennsylvania, San Francisco Bay, California, January 18, 1911. This is credited as the first successful shipboard landing of an aircraft.
Creation Date
1911-01-18
Subject
Pennsylvania (Battleship)
Curtiss Model D, Ely
United States. Navy
Ely, Eugene Burton, 1886-1911
Place
San Francisco (Calif.)
California
United States
Extent
1 photograph : black and white ; 7 x 5 in
Original Format
photographic prints
Bibliographic Citation
The William S. Luckey Aviation Collection/The Museum of Flight
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No copyright - United States
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William S. Luckey Aviation Collection
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public domain
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[Curtiss Model D aircraft landing on USS Pennsylvania]
, [2007-09-24_image_211]. Museum of Flight Digital Collections, accessed 14/02/2026, https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/nodes/view/10109