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Aviation history and Wiley Post are inextricably linked. On July 22nd, 1933 Wiley Post returned to Floyd Bennett Field, New York after flying solo around the world. It took him on 7 days, 18 hours, and 49 minutes. Post was the first aviator to fly solo around the world. Floyd Bennett Field and, sadly, the Post-Rogers Site (the site where Wiley Post and Will Rogers crashed and died in Alaska) are both in our Aviation Travel Itinerary: nps.gov/nr/travel/aviation/index.htm
Posted on: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:41:38 +0000

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