FIRST PLANE AT POLE
Dakota To Go To Air Museum Fifteen years and one day after ! going into Navy service, the United States Navy Dakota, “Que Sera Sera,” which made the first aircraft landing at the South Pole on October 31, 1956, made its last flight last week. It was flown, from. Little America to McMurdo Sound, where it i& now being packed for being shipped, back to the United States for permanent display in the National Air Museum. Last August the Bureau of Aeronautics requested that the aircraft be given non-operational status and sent to the museum. The Dakota has logged 10,132 flying hours. Special precautions are being taken to preserve her instruments, and associated equipment. The finish and markings will be the same as when the aircraft was used in the Antarctic. Six men are dismantling the Dakota for shipping back to the United States on the U.S.S. Arneb.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28766, 11 December 1958, Page 6
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