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| Southern Cross landing in Brisbane, 1928 | |
| Type | F.VIIb/3m |
| Manufacturer | Fokker |
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| Preserved at | The Kingsford Smith Memorial near Brisbane Airport |
The Southern Cross is a Fokker F.VIIb/3m trimotor monoplane that was flown by Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm, Harry Lyon and James Warner in the first-ever trans-Pacific flight to Australia from the mainland United States, a distance of about 11,670 kilometres (7,250 mi), in 1928.