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Administrator
The City of East Wenatchee and Chelan-Douglas Port Authority are celebrating the region's aviation legacy at the Pangborn Festival of Flight, June 21st.
The airport is named after and the Festival recognizes Clyde Pangborn, who with Hugh Herndon, belly landed a Bellanca Skyrocket above Fancher Heights in East Wenatchee in 1931 after completing the first non-stop trans-pacific flight from Misawa, Japan
Pangborn's Bellanca Skyrocket (minus landing gear) preparing to land in East Wenatchee Courtesy National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
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The airport is named after and the Festival recognizes Clyde Pangborn, who with Hugh Herndon, belly landed a Bellanca Skyrocket above Fancher Heights in East Wenatchee in 1931 after completing the first non-stop trans-pacific flight from Misawa, Japan
Pangborn's Bellanca Skyrocket (minus landing gear) preparing to land in East Wenatchee Courtesy National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
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