Douglas Corrigan was nicknamed "Wrong Way" in 1938 after flying from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, to Baldonnel Aerodrome, County Dublin, Ireland on July 18 though his flight plan was filed to return to Long Beach, California. He had been denied permission to make a nonstop flight from New York to Ireland and claimed his unauthorized flight was due to a navigational error. However, Corrigan, one of the builders of Charles A. Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis had made several modifications to his plane in preparation for the transatlantic flight. This, among other factors, suggests the "mistake" was deliberate although Corrigan never admitted this.
The aircraft that Douglas Corrigan flew to Ireland was a Curtiss Model 50 Robin J-1, Curtiss serial number 305, registered NX9243.
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