Photo #4 is at Roosevelt Field, the final landing site of the "Liberty Aerial Treasure Hunt". Note our Great Lakes second from the end My dad came in 8th out of 90 entrants.
Photo #5. On the 1933 Florida Air Tour. Stopped at Chapel Hill, North Carolina for-gas en route to Miami.
Photo #6 shows NC-818K at the original Salisbury Airport in 1935. The aircraft in the background is our Spartan C2 with a 60 h.p. Jacobs 3 cylinder radial which we used for student instruction.
Photos #7 and #8, May 19, 1938, the Great Lakes, NC-818K, carries the first airmail from Eastern Shore of Maryland to Logan Field, Baltimore and return. The picture shows my dad in the cockpit with Mr. Brown of the Post Office handing him the mail bag. Note cover over front cockpit which was used when flying solo, as it kept a lot of wind out of the rear cockpit.
The airmail envelopes used in the 1938 Airmail Week celebration carried the picture of our Great Lakes and my dad. This letter was sent by my mother to my grandmother in Suffern, New York.
In 1943 the original Cirrus engine was replaced with a Menasco C-4 due to the Cirrus throwing a rod through the crankcase. NC818K was rebuilt in 1964 and painted white and orange with blue pin-striping. for a time the cowl and wheelpants were burnished aas they are today, but eventually painted white. NC818K was once again torn down in 1990 for a total rebuild.
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