Lithuania
Lietuva
18th May 1934
Stamps issued in commemoration of the Lithuanian pilots Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas.
Lituanica was a Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker aeroplane flown from the United States across the Atlantic Ocean by pilots Darius and Girėnas in 1933. After successfully flying 6,411 km, it crashed, due to undetermined circumstances, 650 km from its destination, Kaunas, Lithuania.
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