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521:KLM Fokker F.III ForĂȘt de Mormal crash
183:before its journey across the Atlantic
231:. All three were aspiring to win the
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934:Air France SNCASE Languedoc crash
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612:Moncrieff and Hood disappearance
366:Aviation accidents and incidents
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674:Imperial Airways Hercules crash
441:Aeromarine 75 Columbus incident
1293:XL Airways Germany Flight 888T
1218:Lufthansa CityLine Flight 5634
845:Air Union Farman Goliath crash
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459:Air Union Farman Goliath crash
450:Air Union Farman Goliath crash
276:American Trans-Oceanic Company
211:'s first solo crossing in the
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634:Imperial Airways Vulcan crash
401:SNETA Farman Goliath ditching
298:The America-Gold Beach museum
98:3,800 mi (6,116 km)
1349:, now an independent country
1210:Trans-Air Service Flight 671
499:Imperial Airways DH.34 crash
309:more Fox Movietone newsreel
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1226:Airbus Industrie Flight 129
1124:Turkish Airlines Flight 981
1100:Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash
665:Imperial Airways W.10 crash
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926:TĂȘte de l'Obiou C-54 crash
837:Picardie mid-air collision
468:Daimler Airway DH.34 crash
432:Picardie mid-air collision
423:Beijing-Han Airlines crash
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191:Broken propeller from the
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259:America/Goldbeach Museum
227:flight from New York to
207:s being the third after
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1041:Air Ferry DC-4 accident
591:KLM Fokker F.VIII crash
1285:Air Moorea Flight 1121
1261:Air France Flight 4590
1234:Air France Flight 8969
1183:Air France Flight 296Q
1057:Air France Flight 1611
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1084:Air Inter Flight 696Y
1049:Air France Flight 212
1025:Air Inter Flight 2611
1009:Air France Flight 117
1001:Air France Flight 007
985:Air France Flight 406
942:Air France Flight 178
582:Dole Air Race crashes
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239:across the Atlantic.
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1202:Air Inter Flight 148
1033:Air India Flight 101
993:Derby Aviation crash
918:Air India Flight 245
695:Before 1920 â
257:is a subject of the
166:transatlantic flight
1367:Individual aircraft
219:Clarence Chamberlin
214:Spirit of St. Louis
158:George Otto Noville
54:General information
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419:Mar 31, 1922
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388:Aug 23, 1921
379:Dec 14, 1920
368:in the 1920s
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1003:(June 1962)
863:(July 1927)
855:(June 1925)
764:(July 1819)
756:(June 1785)
548:Fokker C-2
248:Ver-sur-Mer
217:flight and
195:in a museum
162:Bert Acosta
124:Ver-sur-Mer
113:written off
47:Ver-sur-Mer
1361:Categories
1153:(May 1981)
847:(May 1923)
652:Dornier J
601:St Raphael
510:Shenandoah
282:References
140:Fokker C-2
71:Fokker C-2
62:Fokker F.9
304:"America"
209:Lindbergh
164:on their
146:monoplane
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265:See also
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205:America'
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771:ZĂ©nith
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229:Berlin
160:, and
138:was a
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