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Although this aircraft is obviously named "The Texan", it is not NC7888, the first aircraft of Standard Airlines to bear that name. NC7888 (c/n 617) was a Fokker F.VIIa with a single Pratt & Whitney Hornet R-1690 engine. It was lost in a crash on March 30, 1929. The shape of this airplane's cockpit and nose section shows that it is the second Standard Airlines aircraft to be named "The Texan", NC9169 (c/n 1038), a U.S.-built Fokker F-10A "Super Trimotor", powered by three Pratt & Whitney Wasp R-1340 engines, and built in July 1929, several months after the loss of NC7888. It only kept its name for a year before being sold to Western Air Express; it then passed to Transcontinental & Western Air and to American Airways before being scrapped in 1932.

01 July 1933, Municipal Airport, Los Angeles, CA. - Colonel Roscoe Turner established a new Transcontinental speed record and won the Bendix race from New York to Los Angeles. (In White hat below Turner) Tom Hynson of Pasadena CA., Truner's backer; (Standing in the cockpit) Roscoe Turner, (below Turner's left with white hat) Mrs. Turner and (next to Mrs. Turner and in dark blazer with medal on chest) Vicent Bendix, trophy doner.

This appears to be Boeing Air Transport's Boeing Model 80A, registered NC227M, c/n 1085. Construction Number "1089" belonged to NC231M, which this is not, as evidenced by the number on top of the starboard wing. The registration NC221M belonged to a Fairchild KR-34C.