A stolen and crashed plane, Mint Canyon, Santa Clarita, 1936
Item Overview
- Title
- A stolen and crashed plane, Mint Canyon, Santa Clarita, 1936
- Date Created
- February 10, 1936
- Date
- 1936-02-10
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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The owner of the plane, Dwight F. Peterson of Gardena, reported the plane missing on Sunday morning. A note on the hangar door said the plane would be returned in 10 days. The plane was smashed into a hillside in Mint Canyon, the propeller broken and the fuselage bent.
Photograph appears with the article, "Plane Thief Net Spread," Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb 1936: A3.
With mountains visible in the background, the small white plane sits in a pile of brush, its nose on the ground. One of the wings has the serial code NCI5630 in large black letters. - Caption
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Text from negative sleeve: 3687 - Dicer- Lost Plane - crashed in Mint Canyon [stamped:] Feb 14 1936
Text from newspaper caption: Its propeller shattered and fuselage bent, this little plane, stolen from Dycer Airport, yesterday lay on a hillside in the Mint Canyon area while police hunted for the thief who escaped after crashing.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_12753
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002hmtfp
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .