Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "Howard Hughes in center leaves Newark Airport with party enroute to Washington, D.C. 7/21/38."

The black and white view of Howard Hughes (far right) and three unidentified men standing in front of the Lockheed 14 aircraft after landing.

Description printed on photograph's accompanying strip of paper: Howard Hughes being carried ashore after arrival in amphibian airplane at U.S. Coast Guard Station, Jamaica Bay, B.W.I.

The black and white view Mayor Laguardia and Grover Whelen watched Howard Hughes land in his Lockheed 14 aircraft at Floyd Bennett Field, New York. Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "Mayor Laguardia (left) and Grover Whelen looking skyward as they see the approaching Howard Hughes and his globe girdlers complete A Round The World flight, 7-24-38. (Press Association)."

Howard Hughes emerging from his airplane after landing in New York. This was his first flight after the nearly fatal XF-11 prototype crash in 1946.

The black and white view of Howard Hughes standing with several unidentified men near the Lockheed 14 aircraft that was then being refueled. Hughes was then on his Around the World Flight where he visited Paris, Moscow, Fairbanks, and Alaska.

The black and white view of Howard Hughes walking with other unidentified men toward the Lockheed 14 aircraft that was then being refueled. Hughes was then on his Around the World Flight where he visited Paris, Moscow, Fairbanks, and Alaska.