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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-CF-4184-10 Curtiss XF9C-1 "Sparrowhawk" fighter (Bureau # A8731) Approaches the trapeze landing gear of USS Akron (ZRS-4), while landing on the airship, 3 May 1932. Photographed from inside Akron's hangar. Pilot is Lieutenant Howard L. Young. Photograph from Department of the Navy collections in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 625 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

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2 July 2002