Southern Cross was the airplane used by the Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith on many of his pioneering flights. He bought the plane, a three-engined Fokker monoplane, from the explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins. In 1928, the Southern Cross, piloted by Kingsford Smith, made the first flights across the Pacific Ocean and Tasman Sea. In 1934, Kingsford Smith sold the plane to the Australian government as a historic relic. In the late 1940’s, the Southern Cross flew once more, during the making of a film about Kingsford Smith’s life. Today, it is preserved at Brisbane Airport, in Queensland, Australia. See also Kingsford Smith, Sir Charles .
