Aircraft load sheet for Don Bennett’s world record Atlantic flight in ‘Mercury’ on 20/21 July 1938

Aircraft load sheet for Don Bennett’s world record Atlantic flight in ‘Mercury’ on 20/21 July 1938

Aircraft load sheet for Don Bennett’s world record flight across the North Atlantic from Foynes to Montreal on 20/21 July 1938 in Short S.20 Seaplane G-ADHJ ‘Mercury’, the upper half of the Mayo Composite. Crew was Don Bennett, pilot, and Jimmy Coster, radio officer. The date at the top is incorrect, with Don Bennett offering the correct one at the bottom.

1929-07-20

Printed document with handwritten entries

This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.

SBennettDCT[Ser#-DoB]v10031