Wings of Texaco 1930 Travel Air Model R "Mystery Ship"

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Wings of Texaco 1930 Traveler Air Model R "Mystery Ship" Bank, new in box.
* AUTHENTICALLY SCALED REPLICA TRAVEL AIR MODEL R "MYSYERY SHIP"
* DIE-CAST METAL COIN BANK
* HIGHLY DETAILED WITH STRUTS AND ROTATING PROPELLOR
"It was June of 1930 whenthe Travel Air "Mystery Ship"- this one being built at the request of Capt. Frank Hawks, transcontinental record-holder of 1929. Hawks was a pilot for the Texaco Company, and after an ok from Texaco, work began on what was to be the most talked about plane of the 1930's. Built in the utmost secrecy, the local newspapers clamored in vain for photographs of what they dubbed the "mystery ship", and the nickname stuck. Hawks was on hand throughout the construction of the plane to see that it was built to suit him in every way. in August 1930, Capt. Hawk set a new transcontinental record in his Travel Air, landing in Los Angeles 14 hours, 30 minutes, 43 seconds after leaving New York; a week later, he broke his own record on the return trip reaching New York in 12 hours, 25 minutes, 3 seconds. Capt. Hawks established more than 200 new speed records in America and Europe and earned the Lique Internationale des Aviateurs medal as the world's outstanding airman".