The National Geographic Magazine, Volume L, Number Three, September 1926

On May 9, 1926, explorer Richard Byrd and pilot Floyd Bennett took off from Spitzbergen, Norway, on a round-trip flight toward the North Pole in the Fokker Tri-Motor Josephine Ford. Byrd recounted their journey in the September 1926 issue of National Geographic. Though Byrd is generally credited with success, controversy remains over whether he and Bennett reached the actual pole.