http://ncwpics.com/ncw/2007/08/18/ncw-history-japan-to-wenatchee-flight-was-a-first/ Pictures of North Central Washington Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:22:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://ncwpics.com/ncw/2007/08/18/ncw-history-japan-to-wenatchee-flight-was-a-first/#comment-2030 » Photos of Fancher Heights Added -See Pictures of North Central Washington at: NCWpics.com » Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:43:42 +0000 http://ncwpics.com/ncw/2007/08/18/ncw-history-japan-to-wenatchee-flight-was-a-first/#comment-2030 [...] Fancher Heights is also the area where Clyde Pangborn landed his plane, along with his navigator Hugh Herndon, successfully completing the first non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean. Being that this area is so far inland from the coast, non-locals still have trouble believing that something as significant as the first non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean would have ended somewhere like North Central Washington. Nowadays, Fancher Heights is primarily residential housing that is slowly working it’s way up the hillside overtaking farmland. [...] [...] Fancher Heights is also the area where Clyde Pangborn landed his plane, along with his navigator Hugh Herndon, successfully completing the first non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean. Being that this area is so far inland from the coast, non-locals still have trouble believing that something as significant as the first non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean would have ended somewhere like North Central Washington. Nowadays, Fancher Heights is primarily residential housing that is slowly working it’s way up the hillside overtaking farmland. [...]

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