Women posing on Sikorsky S38-A "The Flying Fish" amphibian plane, Lake Arrowhead, 1929

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Handwritten at edge of negative: AH 101, 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, 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 women in bathing suits, posing on Sikorsky S38-A "The Flying Fish" amphibian plane on surface of Lake Arrowhead, with boat with couple and dog behind, shoreline and trees in background, Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.