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On June 20, 1937, three Soviet aviators completed the first non-stop flight from the U.S.S.R. to the U.S.A. near this site at Pearson Airfield, when Command Pilot Valeri Chkalov, Co-Pilot Georgi Baidukov, and Navigator Alexander Belyakov finished the Moscow to Vancouver flight in 63 hours 16 minutes after covering 5,288 nautical miles. Their aircraft, ANT-25, landed at Pearson Army Airfield in Vancouver, Washington, successfully completing a non-stop flight from Moscow across the North Pole to the United States of America and pioneering the first air route from Europe to America over the pole.
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