Lithuanian pilots Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas in front of the Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker plane they’d bought in June 1932. The men rebuilt it and named it “Lituanica” and, in July 1933, attempted a New York-to-Lithuania flight. They fatally crashed 636 km short of Kaunas.

Lithuanian pilots Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas in front of the Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker plane they’d bought in June 1932. The men rebuilt it and named it “Lituanica” and, in July 1933, attempted a New York-to-Lithuania flight. They fatally crashed 636 km short of Kaunas.

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