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Full name
  
Stasys Girskis

Nationality
  
Lithuania

Flight license
  
1925

Role
  
Pilot

Cause of death
  
Aviation crash

Famous flights
  
Lithuanica flight

Name
  
Stasys Girenas

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Born
  
October 4, 1893 Vytogala, near Silale Lithuania (
1893-10-04
)

Known for
  
Second by the distance of non stop flight an fourth by the time spent in air at the time, also being first official airmail shipment form USA to Europe.

Died
  
July 17, 1933, Pszczelnik, Poland

Darius ir Girėnas (1933)


Stasys Girėnas (known as Stanley T. Girenas in the USA; born Stasys Girskis October 4, 1893 in Vytogala, Lithuania – July 17, 1933 near Soldin, Germany) was a Lithuanian-American pilot.

Stasys Girėnas Lituanica skrydis Fotoalbumas Lietuvos Aviacijos Istorija 1919

Girenas was born in Vytogala, in the Šilalė district of Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire. In 1910, when he was 17 years old, he emigrated to the United States, and settled in Chicago. As a young man he worked in a printing house. In 1917, upon the entry of the U.S. into World War I, he enlisted in the United States Army, where he was trained as a mechanic. In 1919, after being honorably discharged, he worked as a cab driver, and at the same time learned to fly. He acquired a plane in 1925. Despite being injured in an air crash, he continued flying and working in civil aviation. In 1931 he won the first prize at the Chicago Air Festival for the best landing of a plane with its engine turned off.

Stasys Girėnas Stasys Girnas Alkaslt

On July 15, 1933, along with Steponas Darius, he attempted a nonstop flight from New York City, to Kaunas, Lithuania - a total of 7,186 km, in a Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker airplane named Lituanica. After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean in 37 hours and 11 minutes, their plane crashed on July 17, 0:36 AM (Berlin Time) by the village of Kuhdamm, near Soldin, Germany (now Pszczelnik, Myślibórz County, Poland). Difficult weather conditions combined with engine defects were the findings of the official investigation. Both aviators were killed in the crash. They had covered a distance of 3,984 miles (6,411 kilometers) without landing, only 650 km short of their final destination.

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In New York City, in 1957, the fliers were memorialized with a granite flagstaff showing the pair in bas-relief. The monument is located in Lithuania Square, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Stasys Girėnas Istorinio skrydio didvyriai Yra alis
Stasys Girėnas Faktai apie Dari ir Girn bei j skryd vir Atlanto Naujien

Stasys Girėnas Lituanicos skrydiui 80 met Kauno miesto muziejus

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References

Stasys Girėnas Wikipedia


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