Photos of John Rodgers Flight

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• Commander John Rodgers and his crew were welcomed to Iolani Palace by Governor Wallace R. Farrington on September 17, 1925. Following the record setting flight, Rodgers was promoted to Assistant Chief and later Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington, D.C.
• Commander John Rodgers and his crew received a heroes welcome at Iolani Palace on September 17, 1925. Later that day they bid aloha to the islands and sailed to San Francisco on the USS Idaho.
• Commander John Rodgers was killed in a single engine plane crash in the Delaware River near the Naval Aircraft Factory, Philadelphia, on August 27, 1926.

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• Commander John Rodgers and his crew were welcomed at Iolani Palace by Governor W. R. Farrington on September 17, 1925. Rodgers died while making a trip to the Naval Aircraft Factory to inspect two PN-10 model seaplanes. He had hoped to fly one of these planes to Hawaii when they were completed.
• Commander John Rodgers was Naval Aviator No. 2. From 1922-1925 Rodgers was commander of the Ford Island Naval Air Station in Hawaii, commissioning the facility on January 17, 1923.
• Commander John Rodgers did more to advance commercial aviation in the islands than any other flyer. After the flight a movement was immediately started to name Honolulu's soon to be airport after him. Two years later, and several months after his death, on March 17, 1927, John Rodgers Field was officially inaugurated. Today the field is known at Honolulu International Airport.

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• The PN-9 No. 1 was one of two planes that took off on August 31, 1925. The PN-9 No. 3 suffered a broken oil pressure line 300 miles from the start and was forced to land at sea, leaving only the PN-9 No. 1 to finish the journey The crew of the PN-9 No. 3 was saved, but the plane sunk before it could be loaded onto a nearby Navy ship.
• The Navy restored the PN-9 No. 1 and flew it again over Honolulu on September 19, 1925. In this photo it is shown flying over Pearl Harbor.
• Pilot B. J. Connell reads an article about the plane and crew presumably being lost at sea in the Honolulu Advertiser on the 50th anniversary of the flight.

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• A poem was written about Commander John Rodgers and his Valiant Crew by Honolulu poet Margaret Kirby Morgan.
• Commander John Rodgers, center, won his Naval wings in 1911. He was a third generation Navy man.
• Commander John Rodgers graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1903 and later established the Naval Air Station at San Diego, California.