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Black and white photograph of an air taxiing down the flight deck with flight deck personnel st…
Grumman C-1 Trader on the Flight Deck
Black and white photograph of an air taxiing down the flight deck with flight deck personnel st…
Black and white photograph of an air taxiing down the flight deck with flight deck personnel standing around it

Grumman C-1 Trader on the Flight Deck

Object NamePhotograph
Historic Owner
Date1957–1961
PeriodCold War
Mediumphotographic paper
ClassificationsCommunication Artifacts
Credit LineCollection of the Intrepid Museum. Gift of Robert Wayne Osburn and family. P2013.149.12
Object numberP2013.149.12
DescriptionPhotograph, Black and white; Horizontal image of a Grumman C-1 Trader taxiing down the flight deck. “USS // Intrepid” is stenciled on the vertical stabilizer, and the plane is numbered, “?19”. A member of the flight deck crew with “AG // Officer” is guiding the plane down the deck. The plane has just released from an arresting cable, and it is visible, slack, behind the aircraft. The airplane's propellers are still spinning. There are other flight deck personnel in long sleeve shirts, safety helmets and earmuffs standing around the deck. Most of the people have their backs to the camera. The optical landing system (OLS), also known as the meatball, is visible on the right side of the image. The nose of a Douglas A-4 Skyhawk is in the foreground on the left. The plane is numbered, “508”. There is a white border around the image.
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