[AVIATION]. [HUGHES, Howard (1905-1976)]. Original Drawing of a Map of Hughes’ 1938 Circumnavigation via Airplane. [San Francisco: Examiner Reference Library, Jul 14, 1938]. Pen and ink drawing on cardstock of the globe with the path of Hughes’ flight, originating in New York, following a polar route to Paris, France, next onto Moscow, Soviet Union, then onto Omsk, Soviet Union, then Yakutsk, Siberia, then back to New York. San Francisco is pointed out on the map. Image size approximately 196 x 197 mm; cardstock leaf approximately 273 x 205 mm. Some scuffing, soiling, white corrections to artwork; toning, soiling, editorial markings to cardstock. On verso of cardstock is the newspaper clipping of the map’s appearance in the Examiner, as well as two Examiner inkstamps. Hughes broke the circumnavigation airspeed record on this flight.