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This black and white photograph shows the WIBW-Capper Publications, Inc. "Flying Rooster" airplane on a snowy airfield. According to newspaper accounts reporters and sports announcers from the radio station in Topeka, Kansas would travel in this plane to broadcast events across the state. Tragically, on April 20, 1949, the "Flying Rooster" crashed on route to an event in western Kansas killing members of the WIBW staff.
Date: Between 1940 and 1949
Item Number: 212361
Call Number: FK2.S5 T.73 N.WIBW *5
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 212361
Business and Industry - Media/Communications - Radio
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1940s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Eisenhower Years, 1946 - 1961
Transportation - Air Travel
Type of Material - Photographs
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