The Travel Air 5000 was an early high-wing monoplane airliner and racing monoplane designed by Clyde Cessna and is chiefly remembered for being the winner of the disastrous Dole Air Race from California to Hawaii.
Travel Air 5000
Travel Air 5000 with National Air Transport in flight
Travel Air 5000 at Hoover Field being christened by Harry Stewart New's wife before an unsuccessful world endurance record, 1928
Woolaroc, winner of ill-fated Dole Air Race in flight
The Dole Air Race, also known as the Dole Derby, was an air race across the Pacific Ocean from Oakland, California, to Honolulu in the Territory of Hawaii held in August 1927 that resulted in several deaths.
Aircraft poised to start the Dole Air Race from Oakland on August 16, 1927
City of Oakland after crash landing on Molokai
Mildred Doran and the Miss Doran
Covell & Waggener, Spirit of John Rodgers [crashed Aug 10, both killed]