Somerset native flew on little-known first flight across Atlantic
U.S. Navy
Chief Machinist’s Mate Eugene S. Rhoads (far left) a Somerset native, appears with the crew of the NC-4 in Lisbon, Portugal, a day after their arrival on May 27, 1919.
First Flight Society Inc. | Luis Mesa, artist
Somerset native Eugene S. Rhoads can be seen at the bottom of this mural on display at the Wright Brothers National Memorial Visitor Center in Kitty Hawk, N.C.
National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
The route of the first trans-Atlantic flight in May 1919.
U.S. Navy
The NC-4, developed by the U.S. Navy and Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co.
