File:Lindbergh in F3B on USS Saratoga (CV-3) 1928.jpg

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English: Charles Lindbergh in a Boeing F3B-1 (BuNo A-7739) from Bombing Squadron VB-2B aboard the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3). Lindbergh visited the USS Saratoga on 8 February 1929. He was aboard for two days and while he was there he was invited to fly the new Boeing F3B-1. The VB-2B made him an honorary member of the squadron.
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Source U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1989.119.002
Author U.S. Navy (The photograph album features a brown leather cover on which is painted naval aviator wings and a starboard side view of USS Saratoga (CV-3) operating at sea. The photographs were taking on what was one of the first voyages of the USS Saratoga. Assembled by a sailor on board the ship, the album features dance tickets and photographs of friends among the crew.)

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