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Oakland Air Relics Gifts Acknowledged

Gifts of the Oakland Board of Port Commissioners to the National Air Museum of the Smithsonian Institution are acknowledged in the first annual report of the museum.

The aviation relics included the "Diamond" airplane, first airplane built in California, and its Kemp engine; the Wiseman-Cooke craft, which made the first air mail flight in the U.S. from Petaluma to Santa Rosa in 1911, and a pilot's control wheel from the cockpit of Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith's "Southern Cross," first to fly from the United States to Australia.

A flag insignia from the First Aero Squadron of World War I, cut from the fuselage of a plane he flew, was donated by Jay G. Bastow, assistant port manager.

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