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Princess Xenia (aircraft)

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world record long-distance flight. After McIntosh's forced landing in Poland, the aircraft was sold to the consortium 'Air Communications Ltd'.
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In 1934 the aircraft was sold to Sir Dossabhoy Hormusjee Bhiwandiwalla in Bombay (now Mumbai). It was broken up in 1937.
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In 1930 the aircraft, with the Duchess, Barnard and Mr. Little, made a record journey from London to
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near Dublin on 16 September 1927. After five and a half hours of flight and 300 miles over the
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Barnard later organised joy rides and shows with the aircraft registered to his company '
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was subsequently commissioned to fly non-stop from London to India, but unsuccessfully.
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It was later sold to the consortium 'Air Communications Ltd' and given the name of
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in Britain as G-EBTS. It had been bought by the son of millionaire
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and back, covering 18,800 miles and taking a total of 20 days.
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was its last owner before the aircraft was scrapped in 1937.
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monoplane that was built in 1925 for the Dutch airline
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Fokker F.VIIa
Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford
Fokker F.VIIa
KLM
Amsterdam
Rotterdam
Robert Henry McIntosh
transatlantic flight
Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford
C. D. Barnard
Lympne Airport
Karachi
British India
Croydon Airport
Fokker F.VIIa
KLM
Amsterdam
Rotterdam
registered
William B. Leeds
Russian Princess Xenia
Robert McIntosh
James Fitzmaurice
Baldonnel Aerodrome
Atlantic
Ballybunion
County Kerry
Bristol Jupiter engine

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