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Crashed Lockheed Vega
Crashed Lockheed Vega
Crashed Lockheed Vega

Crashed Lockheed Vega

DateAugust 12, 1941
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions4 1/8 × 6 11/16 in. (10.5 × 17 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Clark Speakman
Object numberPA1968.001.156
DescriptionLaura Ingalls' Lockheed Vega, registration number NC7954, is nosed over the runway at the Albuquerque Airport in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In the center frame, the top of a crahsed plane is nose down in the dirt. The tail is in the air. The registration number NC7954, is painted on top of the right wing. The fuselage has numbers on it that read, "No A.E.F." [No American Expeditionary Forces]. There is a man standing in the left frame next to the plane. In the background there are mountains.
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