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The Last Flight of The Hawaii Clipper

by The Pan Am Historical Foundation In June 1938, a young engineer from the National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA) took along his 16mm movie camera on what would be the last completed round-trip flight of the Hawaii Clipper. The following month, the aircraft vanished without a trace. This is a short segment from that…

Game of Crimes Podcast: An 80-Year Old Cold Case

Listen to our Lost Clipper team member and friend, Steve Murphy, along with investigator, Morgan Wright, on their Game of Crimes podcast as they take a deep dive into our story.

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Crowd Sourcing: We Can Use Your Help

Guy and the rest of the Lost Clipper team have been researching the disappearance of the NC14714 Hawaii Clipper for well over twenty years now. We’ve made great strides over the years, sometimes by leaps and bounds and other times in drabs and dribbles. Times are tough these days on a worldwide scale. For you….

Narcos’ Murphy and Pena on the Lost Clipper Case

Netflix Narcos Steve Murphy and Javier Pena are hot on the trail investigating our 80+ year-old cold case in the jungles of Micronesia conducting interviews and research to help find 15 lost American souls on the Lost Clipper case.

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Greeting Jim Janicki to The Lost Clipper Team!

As followers of The Lost Clipper project over the years (specifically 20 years for us as of June 2019!), you’re well aware of the puzzle that the team is trying to decipher. Obviously, one part of that puzzle is the detective work that must be done to re-create the events and possibilities those 80+ years…

Narcos Investigators, Hot on the Trail

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Trip to Truk, A Visual Recap

In late January through early February of 2018, The Lost Clipper team ventured again into the islands of Truk Lagoon. This is a brief visual recap of our search. Guy Noffsinger, Executive Producer Jeff Riegel, Producer Bill Stinnett, The Truk Stop Steve Murphy, DEA Narcos Robert Perry, Topographix Stephen Clouse, Liaison Ollie Dale, Vitually Famous…

Quite A Productive Day!

We had quite a productive day today. Aside from a few downpours, things went well for us. The entire crew is back again tomorrow using sophisticated Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) via Topographix to hone in on our search target. These folks on the island are super friendly, climbing a nearby coconut tree and preparing a…

New Zealand/U.S. filmmakers hope to solve aviation mystery linked to Amelia Earhart

by SIMON MAUDE, Stuff A New Zealand filmmaker has teamed up with a former US Navy intelligence officer in a bid to solve one of aviation’s most intriguing mysteries. Aucklander Ollie Dale is joining Guy Noffsinger and team to investigate how Pan Am flight 229 inexplicably vanished over the Pacific in 1938 – and how the plane’s disappearance…