Pacific Queen Z-35

Historical marker location:

Great Bend, Kansas

( Memorial is on 6th Street west of Airport Road/SW 40th Avenue, on the right when traveling west.)

73rd Bomb Wing 500th Bomb Group. 882nd Bomb Squadron.

The first successful airplane flight west of the Mississippi River took place in Kansas in 1910, when Clyde Cessna flew his plane for the first time in Wichita.