Photo Essay:The Blakesburg Fly-In
Antique airplanes—the cream of the crop—fluttered around corn country to celebrate an air mail birthday.
- By airspacemag.com
- AirSpaceMag.com, November 18, 2008
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Caroline Sheen
1928 Boeing 40C
Livery: Pacific Air Transport
Tail number 5339
Addison Pemberton (pictured) built the 40C from scavenged parts, all that remained after the mail plane crashed on a mountaintop in 1928. Some 50 original pieces were absorbed into a 30,000-piece aircraft; Pemberton’s wife, Wendy, says, ”He didn’t bring a project home—he brought home DNA.” The world’s only airworthy 40C resides in Spokane, Washington. It flew the mail from Blakesburg to Ottumwa and back on August 29.
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Comments (1)
I remember seeing the two Sikorsky flying boats owned by
Martin and Osa Johnson at the Chanute Airport about 1933 or 1934. We lived in Chanute, Kansas at the time, and took
photographs of both planes (unfortunately, none of the photos exist today).
Posted by Robert Finch on March 9,2010 | 03:56 PM