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..