JEAN MERMOZ - Lot 150

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JEAN MERMOZ - Lot 150
JEAN MERMOZ Laté 28 le comte de la Vaulx: slightly faded signature of Jean Mermoz on yellowed paper with handwritten text, accompanied by a bronze "Mermoz" medal by Blin (diameter 6 cm) and an envelope to Buenos Ayres-Argentina (via Air France). A modern wooden model of the Latecoère Late 28-3 "Comte-de-La Vaulx" at 1/35°, length 39 - wingspan 55cm, is attached. - After breaking the world distance record for seaplanes in a closed circuit on April 11 and 12, 1930, the crew of Jean Mermoz, pilot, Jean Dabry, navigator and Léopold Gimié, radio operator, made the first commercial crossing of the South Atlantic on May 12, 1930, flying a Laté 28.3, registration F-AJNQ and christened "Comte-de-La-Vaulx" in memory of Henry de La Vaulx, an aeronautical personality who died on April 18.
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