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FELIKS BANEL -- NORTHWEST HISTORIAN HEARD ON SEATTLE'S MORNING NEWS

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Images: A collage of crash pictures from Sand Point, circa 1929. Image: This Image: The Soviet ANT-4 Image: An aerial image of the University of Washington Image: This is an aerial image, circa 1929, of the grass runway and rudimentary buildings at what became Sand Point Naval Air Station and, later, Magnuson Park. Image: This is a shot of the downtown Seattle skyline taken, circa 1929, from an open-seat plane flying over Elliott Bay, with the aviator/photographer likely turned around in his seat and capturing the tail of the plane in the foreground. Image: The detail from an Asahel Curtis photo of a Navy squadron at Sand Point. Image: Aviator and photographer Ludwig Schreuder flew at Sand Point in 1929-1930; he died in a Navy crash in California in 1934 at age 30.
Aviator’s rediscovered photo albums are full of history, mystery