PRESSED STEEL1938 Wyandotte CLIPPER airplane ORIGINAL RARE FUTURISTIC ART DECO - $150 - (Tahlequah, OK)

We have several really nice 1930s pressed steel toy airplanes and trucks listed for sale on eBay and are listing more- Check out our other items. RARE & COLLECTIBLE- ANTIQUE- 80 YEARS OLD1938 Wyandotte China Clipper Heavy Pressed Steel 13" Wingspan---MADE IN USAORIGINAL PAINT DECALS w/ a few PAINT chipsART DECO BEAUTY w/Wooden wheelsGO BY PHOTOS This great seaplane was a box tops + cash premium toy in 1938 from Kelloggs of Battle Creek Michigan in 1938 80 years ago, a silvery four-engine'd seaplane took off from Alameda CA and headed west across San Francisco Bay and out to sea for a flight into history.It was the famous China Clipper, bound for a 59-hour flight to Manila.The Pan American Airways flight that took off on Nov. 22, 1935, was the first regularly scheduled flight across the oceans of the world. It was hailed in The Chronicle as the beginning of "a giant new age," and the Martin 130 seaplane named China Clipper was called "the greatest airplane ever built in America." It is hard now to imagine the excitement that accompanied the first commercial air service across the Pacific. Twenty-five thousand people saw the Clipper take off, "spreading proudly her silver wings against the setting sun, flashing proudly 150 years of Yankee tradition," as the paper called it.The first flight was rich in symbolism: The plane was so heavily loaded that the pilot, Capt. Edwin Musick, was forced to fly under the cables of the unfinished Bay Bridge, then gained altitude along the San Francisco waterfront and over the Golden Gate.One week and four stops later, the China Clipper was in Manila. It was the beginning of a new era: The voyage would have taken 15 to 16 days by fast steamship. It was a pioneering flight - for various reasons, mostly political, it was four years before a commercial flight crossed the Atlantic. WE SHIP UPON PAYMENT ONLY TO USA---OR BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT GO BY PHOTOS

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