Jan Nagórski

Jan Nagórski
Born(1888-01-27)January 27, 1888
Włocławek, Russian Empire
DiedJune 9, 1976(1976-06-09) (aged 88)
Warsaw, Poland
Resting placeWólka Węglowa cemetery, Bielany, Warsaw
CitizenshipPolish
Known forAviator, engineer and Arctic explorer
AwardsOrder of St. Stanislaus, Polonia Restituta
Aviation career
Air forceImperial Russian Navy, Red Army

Alfons Jan Nagórski (1888–1976), also known as Ivan Iosifovich Nagursky,[1] was a Polish engineer and pioneer of aviation, the first person to fly an airplane in the Arctic and the first aviator to perform a loop with a flying boat.

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