Group on dock and on Sikorsky S38-A "The Flying Fish" amphibian plane on water, Lake Arrowhead, 1929

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Text from nitrate negative sleeve: AH 82 - 83 - 84 - 85 - 86 - 87 - 88 - 89 90 - 91 - 92 - 93 - 94 - 95 - 96 97 98 - 99 -100 -101 -102 -103 File 2037 Western Air Express Sirkosky [sic] [should read: Sikorsky] plane lands on Lake Arrowhead, 1929. One of very first airplanes to land on lake. Lake Arrowhead 2037 Photo by Adelbert Bartlett, 535 15th Street, Santa Monica, Calif., 2 men in sweaters, 5 women in bathing suits, posing on and near Sikorsky S38-A "The Flying Fish" amphibian plane, with ropes and life preserver, This Sikorsky S-38A, Western Air Express 'Flying Fish,’ was registration number NC8021. Built 1928, crashed Avalon Harbour CA 5.6.29. Cf. Civil Aircraft Register - United States, Golden Years of Aviation, http://www.goldenyears.ukf.net/reg_N18.htm, Handwritten at edge of negative: AH 99, Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.