Stasys Girėnas was a Lithuanian-American pilot, who died in a non-stop flight attempt with the Lituanica from New York City to Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1933.
Stasys Girėnas
Girėnas (left) and Steponas Darius before the Lituanica transatlantic flight in 1933
Darius (left) and Girėnas on a Lithuanian 10 litas banknote
2013 Lithuanian stamp
Lituanica was a Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker airplane flown from the United States across the Atlantic Ocean by Lithuanian pilots Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas in 1933. After successfully flying 6,411 km, it crashed, due to undetermined circumstances, 650 km from its destination, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Lituanica
Replica of Lituanica above Vilnius in 1993
1933 rare original photograph of the Committee of Greater New York sponsoring the Darius–Girenas Transatlantic flight, in front of the orange Belanca plane Lituanica at Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, New York, taken a week before the take-off on July 15th. At extreme left is A. Mažeika, who initiated the issuance of the special flight benefitting stamps; both pilots are to the right or left of the plane at center.
Flight cover autographed by pilots Steponas Darius & Stasys Girenas of the ill-fated 1933 Lituanica
