Pilot Wiley Post (1898-1935), accompanied by navigator Harold Gatty (1903-1957), set the speed record for around-the-world flight during a trip completed on July 1, 1931. Post later became the first pilot to circle the globe solo. He died, along with humorist Will Rogers, when a plane he was piloting crashed during takeoff from a lagoon near Point Barrow, Alaska. Bi-fold program for a banquet held by the National Aeronautic Association and Washington Board of Trade on July 6, 1931, in honor of Post and Gatty's historic around-the-world flight, 5 x 8, signed on the reverse in fountain pen, "Wiley Post" and "Harold Gatty." In fine condition.
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