Did you know Wenatchee has a connection to a piece of aviation history almost a century old? The first non-stop, transPacific flight took place on October 3, 1931, when Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon left Sabishiro Beach in Misawa, Japan, to fly Miss Veedol across the ocean. They crash-landed on the bluffs above East Wenatchee after 41 hours in the air.