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| Date: | Friday 26 August 1927 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | Stinson SM-1 Detroiter |
| Owner/operator: | Paul Rinaldo Redfern |
| Registration: | NX773 |
| MSN: | M200 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Guiana highlands -
 Venezuela
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Brunswick, Georgia, USA |
| Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Paul Rinaldo Redfern (25), a former barnstormer and US Customs Service pilot was attempting a 4,600 mile flight from Brunswick GA to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, in a Stinson Detroiter single-engine monoplane. He never made it and the final resting place of the Stinson, named "Port of Brunswick", remains a mystery to this day. The only confirmed sighting of the aircraft was reported by a Dutch merchant ship near Trinidad and about 165 miles from the coast of Venezuela, on the 26th at about 3 p.m. However there were two other sightings of Redfern's aircraft near Bolivar City, Venezuela - up the Orinoco River. It is thought Redfern crashed in the Guiana Highlands bordering Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana.
Sources:
1. a biography of Paul Redfern and his last flight is at
https://windowstoworldhistory.weebly.com/are-paul-redfern-and-the-port-of-new-brunswick-buried-in-the-amazon-jungle.html. author copyrighted kathywarnes@gmail.com
2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Redfern
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 08-May-2009 04:12 | angels one five | Updated |
| 14-Dec-2011 16:47 | angels one five | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 02-Apr-2017 15:38 | TB | Updated [Location, Country, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 02-Apr-2017 15:39 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type, ] |
| 02-Apr-2017 16:23 | TB | Updated [Registration, Cn, Narrative, ] |
| 12-Aug-2017 06:46 | Noman | Updated [Source, ] |
| 11-May-2022 07:23 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location, Source, Damage, Narrative, ] |
| 17-Jun-2023 02:16 | Ron Averes | Updated |
| 02-Jul-2023 19:08 | TB | Updated |
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