The first of nine PH-1 production aircraft for the US Navy. Delivered to Anacostia twelve days before the given photo date, and this is indeed the Anacostia River with a wing of the Roosevelt Hall visible on the far left. A8687 saw overseas service at Coco Solo, Panama, and Pearl Harbor. Hit and sunk by its own mooring buoy in a strong wind at French Frigate Shoals atoll, Hawaii on 27 October 1936. Salvaged but written off. Photo from: Hall

19 Jan 1980: First flight. 25 Jan 1980: TOS USAF. By 5/89: 354th Tactical Fighter Wing, Myrtle Beach AFB, SC. 9/95: Flown to Campbell Army Airfield, Ft. Campbell, KY for installation at the Don F. Pratt Memorial Museum.