It's a turbo Otter, with the characteristic extended nose, and from a distance, it looks a bit like Charles Lindberg's famous 'Spirit of St. Louis' in which he flew the Atlantic to fame and fortune. This one has a range of 960 miles in its normal configuration, but it can carry over a ton of cargo, so maybe Lindberg could have made it in one of these. He'd have made it a lot faster, for sure, because this goes 160 MPH flat out. That's a little over 50 MPH faster than his, but he did very well for 1927!
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