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The Indian Head and Arrow on the side of the plane was used by Transcontinental and Western Air Express, which became TWA. Even as late as the mid Sixties, the Indian Head was still on a button on the pilots hat.

Great picture. Congrats!

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_MB-1

Given the aircraft, the patches of grass around it, positions of the propellers, etc., this is apparently a photo of the same modified Martin MB-1 Bomber (Martin GMB-TA or "Martin GMT"; Air Service Serial No. A.S. 62949, c/n 8) taken contemporaneously as this photo with aviator Roy N. Francis. www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/33493219665/

Thanks swanq and TVL1970. We'll add the information about the plane to this catalog record also.

This is c/n 8 NC864M after NYRBA Capt Herman Sewell lost both engines on 13 Aug 1930 while on his way to Havana from Cienfuegos. He made, as can be seen, a very credible landing with no injuries reported to anyone. Aircraft was repaired and survived all the way to Sep 1942 when it finally was destroyed in an accident. I was surprised about the name 'Porto Rico' since it has always been listed as named Puerto Rico! However my initial misgivings regarding the spelling capacity of NYRBA (Consolidated) staff I checked and found that Porto Rico was an old style spelling and can be found on for example older maps. Not a day without learning something new! Stig

Puerto became correct in 1932 apparently...so what language is Porto Rico...Portuguese? or Italian?