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Port of Oakland, Oakland, Calif. : A BBT light used for the original airport- 

 lighting installation at Oakland Airport ; and a gasoline tank from the Italian 

 transpolar airship "Norge" 1926 (N.A.M. 807). 



PUMPHKEY, Mr. and Mrs. Charles, Washington, D. C. : A world globe on which 

 several noted aviators and air navigators, including Wiley Post, Harold Gatty, 

 and Roger Q. Williams, ijersonally inscribed the course of their long-distance 

 flights (N.A.M. 810, loan). 



Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind. : A collection of medals, awards, keys to 

 cities, and other trophy items presented to or in honor of Amelia Earhart, 

 first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, 1928 ; first woman to pilot her 

 airplane solo across that ocean in 1932; and in 19.35 to fly solo from Hawaii 

 to California across the Pacific (N.A.M. 802, loan). 



Randolph, Hon. Jennings, Washington, D. C. : The pen with which the Presi- 

 dent of the United States, Harry S. Truman, on August 12, 1946, signed the 

 Act establishing the National Air Museum. That Act (Public Law 722 of 

 the 79th Congress) was authored by the donor with General of the Air Force 

 H. H. Arnold (N.A.M. 813) . 



Rearwin, Kenneth R., La Jolla, Calif. : An Anzani aircraft engine of radial 

 form. Type B, manufactured in France about 1925, 6-cylinder, 45 hp. 

 (N.A.M. 804, loan). 



Richmond, Lt. Jack, USAF (Ret), Los Angeles, Calif.: Helmet and goggles 

 worn by him during training at Love Field, Dallas, Tex., World War I. Auto- 

 graphed by famous aviation personalities (N.A.M. 787). 



RiNALDi, Victor, Arlington, Va. : Scale exhibition models, 1 : 16, of two Wright 

 brothers' aeroplanes — the Type A, first military flyer of 1909, and the Type E, 

 single-propelled pusher biplane of 1913. Modeled by Roderic Davis of 

 Takoma Park, Md. (N.A.M. 815, purchase). 



RoGAi.LO, Francis M., Langley Field, Va. : Three examples of flexible-surfaced 

 kites, invented by him ( N.A.M. 834) , 



Sperry Gyroscope Company, Great Neck, N. Y. : An operable demonstration 

 unit of the Sperry Automatic Pilot, assembled in an exhibition case with the 

 original instrument of this type used by Wiley Post in his solo flight around 

 the world, July 13 to 22, 1933 (N.A.M. 832), 



Swallow Airplane Co., Inc., Wichita, Kans., through Sam Bloomfield, presi- 

 dent: Fuselage of the Laird "Super Solution" biplane in which Maj. James 

 H. Doolittle won the Bendix Race at the National Air Races and set a record 

 of 11 hours 16 minutes elapsed time between Burbank, Calif., and Newark, 

 N. J., September 1931 (N.A.M. 788). 



United Aircraft Corp., East Hartford, Conn. : A utensil carried on the balloon 

 "Graphic" during a trip from New York to Canaan, Conn., 1873 (N.A.M. 783). 



University of Detroit, Detroit, Mich.: A Packard Diesel aircraft engine of 

 1929, No. DR-9S0, Serial No. 5 J, 9-cylinder, radial, air-cooled, developing 

 225 hp. at 1,950 r. p. m. (N.A.M. ,818). 



Veeder-Root, Inc., Hartford, Conn. : A Veeder Counter, similar to the one 

 installed by the Wright brothers on their Kitty Hawk Flyer to record the 

 revolutions of their engine when they made the first powered and controlled 

 heavier-than-air flights by man, December 17, 1903 (N.A.M. 784). 



Wagonrod, W. E., Dayton, Ohio: Two scale exhibition models, 1:16, of Wright 

 brothers' aircraft — their glider of 1902 and their third aeroplane, 1905. Mod- 

 eled by Joseph Fallo of Dayton (N.A.M. 792, purchase). 



Respectfully submitted. 



Paul E. Garber, Head Curator. 

 Dr. Leonard Carmichael, 

 Secretary^ Smithsonian Institution. 



