The Pangborn-Herndon Memorial Site is a monument in (present-day)

East Wenatchee, Washington East Wenatchee is a city in Douglas County, Washington, United States. The population at the 2010 census was 13,190, a 129.1% increase on the 2000 census, having annexed much of the East Wenatchee Bench CDP. As of the 2020 census, the popul ...

, dedicated to

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and Hugh Herndon, Jr., the two men who made the first

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across the

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. They departed from Misawa, Japan, on October 4, 1931, and landed near this site 41 hours later. The memorial, by artist Walter Graham, is northeast of East Wenatchee and consists of a , basalt column atop a concrete base. The column is topped by wings made of aluminum.
This was in an unincorporated area in 1931, but the town of

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, was nearby.

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*Young, Don; Young, Marjorie (1999). ''Adventure Guide to the Pacific Northwest'', Hunter Publishing, Inc. {{Registered Historic Places 1968 sculptures Air transportation on the National Register of Historic Places Buildings and structures in Douglas County, Washington Monuments and memorials on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington (state) National Register of Historic Places in Douglas County, Washington