Item 103915 - Crew member of the "Dawn," Old Orchard Beach, 1927
- Item 103915 - Crew member of the "Dawn," Old Orchard Beach, 1927
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Image Info On October 10, 1927, famed female aviator Frances Wilson Grayson, niece of President Woodrow Wilson, landed her Sikorsky S-36 amphibian plane "Dawn" on Old Orchard Beach. Her goal was to set up base in Old Orchard for her transatlantic flight to Copenhagen.
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The flight was hampered, and eventually cancelled, by poor weather and visibility.
