H12505 Accession Number: H12505

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Captain William (Billy) Stutt of the NSW State Aviation School, Richmond, in the cockpit of a Curtiss Jenny aircraft. The aircraft is probably JN-4B, one of the second batch to arrive at Richmond. On this day he left for Melbourne with Augustus James as a passenger. The windscreen is not the type used for training pilots, but suitable for flying at altitude.

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Accession Number
H12505
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Print
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
c 1 November 1917
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donated by Mr Walter Burke
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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