The Flight of the Spokane Sun God exhibit

Personal artifacts from famed pilot Nick Mamer will be on display in Spokane Valley for the next several months, including many the notes he dropped from his plane during his historic five day cross-country flight.

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Wed., Aug. 14, 2019

Nick Mamer, the pilot who did an inflight refueling mission from Felts Field to New York and back is the subject of a new exhibit at Spokane Valley Heritage Museum photographed on Friday, August 9, 2019.

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Original hand written letters by Nick Mamer, the pilot who did an inflight refueling mission from Felts Field to New York and back is part of a new exhibit at Spokane Valley Heritage Museum photographed on Friday, August 9, 2019.

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A telegram from President Herbert Hoover to Nick Mamer, the pilot who did an inflight refueling mission from Felts Field to New York and back is part of a new exhibit at Spokane Valley Heritage Museum photographed on Friday, August 9, 2019.

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This photograph of the refueling of Spokane Sun God piloted by Nick Mamer, the pilot who did an inflight refueling mission from Felts Field to New York and back is part of a new exhibit at Spokane Valley Heritage Museum photographed on Friday, August 9, 2019.

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Jayne Singleton, Spokane Valley Heritage Museum director, talks Friday, Aug. 9, 2019, about Nick Mamer, the pilot who did an inflight refueling mission from Felts Field to New York and back.

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