Transcontinental Air Speed Record (1946)

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January 26 - Col William Councill sets a new US transcontinental speed record of 4 hours 13 minutes in a Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star flying from Long Beach, CA to overhead La Guardia Airport, NY nonstop.

January 26, 1946 
4 hours 13 minutes 26 seconds 
West to East 
Col W. H. Councill 
Lockheed P-80  

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