| Miss Veedol / The American Nurse | |
|---|---|
 Replica of Miss Veedol in the Misawa Aviation & Science Museum, Aomori, Japan. (When the plane was renamed The American Nurse, it was painted white with yellow wings).[1] | |
| General information | |
| Type | Bellanca CH-400 or Bellanca J-300 |
| Owners | Hugh Herndon (Miss Veedol) A group headed by Dr. Leon Martocci-Pisculli (The American Nurse) |
| Registration | NR796W |
| History | |
| Fate | Lost September 1932 |
Miss Veedol was the first airplane to fly non-stop across the Pacific Ocean.[2] On October 5, 1931, Clyde Pangborn and co-pilot Hugh Herndon landed in the hills of East Wenatchee, Washington, following a 41-hour flight from Sabishiro Beach, Misawa, Japan, across the northern Pacific. The flight won the pair the 1931 Harmon Trophy in recognition of the greatest achievement in flight for that year.[3]
Miss Veedol was later sold and renamed The American Nurse. On a 1932 flight from New York City to Rome for aviation medicine research, she was last sighted by an ocean liner in the eastern Atlantic, before disappearing without a trace.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Timewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Paur, Jason (May 10, 2010). "Oct. 5, 1931: First Nonstop Trans-Pacific Flight Ends in Cloud of Dust". Wired.
- ^ "Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, Jr.: First to Fly Nonstop Across the Pacific". Weider History Group. 2006. p. 5. Archived from the original on 2012-10-06. Retrieved 2011-08-01.