Miss Veedol

First airplane to fly non stop across the Pacific Ocean

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| name=Miss Veedol / The American Nurse
| image=File:MissVeedol. jpg
| caption=Replica of Miss Veedol in the Misawa Aviation & Science Museum, Aomori, Japan. (When the plane was renamed The American Nurse, it was painted white with yellow wings). On October 5, 1931, Clyde Pangborn and co pilot Hugh Herndon landed in the hills of East Wenatchee, Washington, following a 41 hour flight from Sabishiro Beach, Misawa, Japan, across the northern Pacific. The flight won the pair the 1931 Harmon Trophy in recognition of the greatest achievement in flight for that year. Miss Veedol was later sold and renamed The American Nurse. On a 1932 flight from New York City to Rome for aviation medicine research, she was last sighted by an ocean liner in the eastern Atlantic, before disappearing without a trace.

Miss Veedol was a 1931 Bellanca CH 400 or Bellanca J 300 Long Distance Special, registration NR796W. It was built at Bellanca Airfield in New Castle, Delaware. It could carry of fuel. Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon modified Miss Veedol while being held in Japanon unfounded suspicions of spyingto be able to carry more fuel, and to be able to jettison the landing gear. Miss Veedol carried an initial load of of aviation gasoline on her record breaking flight. Miss Veedol was named for the motor oil brand, Herndon's mother, Alice Carter Herndon, was the heiress of the Tidewater Oil Company. by Wiley Post and Harold Gatty.