Transpolar Record Flight Site
Near this site on July 14, 1937, three Russian aviators completed a transpolar flight from Moscow in 62 hrs, 17 min establishing a new world's nonstop distance record of 6,305 miles. The huge single-engine aircraft, an ANT-25 military reconnaissance monoplane, was shipped back to Russia and placed in a museum. Aircraft commander Mikhail Gromov, co-pilot Andre Ymashev, and navigator Sergei Danilin became generals in World War II.
Marker is at the intersection of Cottonwood Avenue and South Sanderson Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Cottonwood Avenue.
Courtesy hmdb.org
