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A photograph showing Albin K. Longren with his first airplane on the Topeka Fair grounds in Topeka, Kansas. This plane was flown for the first time on September 2, 1911, and was the first sucessful airplane built in Kansas. It was powered with the first eight cylinder motor owned within the state of Kansas. The motor was a type A-2 Hall-Scott, 8 cylinder, water cooled, detachable heads, 60 horsepower, bore 4" and stroke 4".
Creator: Boeger, Topeka
Date: May 16, 1912
Item Number: 223791
Call Number: TL.500 Lon.A 1 *13
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 223791
Business and Industry - Aviation - Production - Longren
Collections - Photograph - Longren, Albin K.
Date - 1910s - 1912
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Notable Kansans - Longren, Albin K.
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Transportation - Air Travel - Companies - Longren
Type of Material - Photographs
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