On October 26, 1925, Lieutenant James Harold Doolittle, Air Service, United States Army, won the Coupe d’Aviation Maritime Jacques Schneider (commonly called the Schneider Trophy) when he placed first flying his Curtiss R3C-2 floatplane over a 217-mile (349 kilometers) course near Bay Shores on Chesapeake Bay, Maryland.
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