2/12/2010
Landmark information
- Location:
0.2 mi W of intersection of Cottonwood and Sanderson Sts on Cottonwood, W of San Jacinto - Plaque:
Other Plaque - Site:
Nothing Remains - Date First Visited:
5/22/1998 - Date Most Recently Visited:
12/22/2022 - GPS Coordinates:
N 333 47.229, W 117 0.661
About this landmark
Plaque text:
Transpolar Record Flight Site
Near this site on July 14, 1937, three Russian aviators completed a transpolar flight from Moscow in 62 hrs, 17 min establishing a new world's nonstop distance record of 6,305 miles. The huge single-engine aircraft, an Ant-25 military reconnaissance monoplane, was shipped back to Russia and placed in a museum. Aircraft commander Mikhail Gromov, co-pilot Andrei Yumashev, and navigator Sergei Danilin became generals in World War II..