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80-G-416534 Curtiss XF9C-1 "Sparrowhawk" fighter

Photo #: 80-G-416534 Curtiss XF9C-1 "Sparrowhawk" fighter
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Title: Curtiss XF9C-1 "Sparrowhawk" fighter
Description: Photo #: 80-G-416534 Curtiss XF9C-1 Sparrowhawk fighter (Bureau # A8731) Is lifted into the hangar of USS Akron (ZRS-4), after hooking onto the airship's trapeze landing gear, 3 May 1932. Photographed during exercises over the Atlantic Ocean near Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey Pilot is Lieutenant Howard L. Young. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Catalog #: 80-G-416534
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