22 June 1914

The Curtiss-Wanamaker America flying boat was christened on 22 June 1914 at Hammondsport, NY. It was built to compete for a $50,000 prize offered by the London Daily Mail for the first transatlantic crossing by a flying machine. Trials of the large aircraft, also known as the Model H, began the next day but preparations for the crossing were interrupted by the onset of the First World War.