1919 NC 4 American Curtiss seaplane at Trepassey Bay Newfoundland transatlantic flight air craft plane
Between 8 and 31 May 1919, the Curtiss seaplane NC-4 made a crossing of the Atlantic flying from the to Newfoundland, then to the Azores and on to Portugal and finally the UK. The whole journey took 23 days. NC-4 was the only one of the three United States Navy aircraft to set out that completed the journey. The journey had been organized by the Navy to include crew rest, aircraft maintenance and repair and refueling, and had been supported by a trail of 22 "station ships" across the Atlantic giving the aircraft points to navigate by.
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