Editing Wiley Post

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|birth_place= [[Corinth, Van Zandt County, Texas]], US
|death_date={{death date and age|1935|8|15|1898|11|22|mf=y}}
|death_place=[[Point Barrow]], [[Territory of Alaska]], US
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|spouse=Mae Laine (m. June 27, 1927)
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[[File:NASM-NASM2014-01653.jpg|thumb|''[[Winnie Mae]]'', Wiley Post's  [[Lockheed Vega]] when it was on display at the [[Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center]]]]

'''Wiley Hardeman Post''' (November 22, 1898 – August 15, 1935) was an American aviator during the [[Aviation between the World Wars|interwar period]] and the first [[aviator|pilot]] to fly solo around the world. Known for his work in high-altitude flying, he helped develop one of the first [[pressure suit]]s and discovered the [[jet stream]]. On August 15, 1935, he and American humorist [[Will Rogers]] were killed when his aircraft [[Rogers-Post Site|crashed on takeoff]] from a lagoon near [[Point Barrow]] in the [[Territory of Alaska]].

Post's modified [[Lockheed Vega]] aircraft, the ''[[Winnie Mae]]'', was on display at the [[National Air and Space Museum]]'s [[Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center]] from 2003 to 2011. It is now featured in the "Time and Navigation" gallery on the second floor of the [[National Air and Space Museum]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]

==Early life==
Post was born to parents who cultivated cotton on a farm near [[Grand Saline, Texas]]. His father was William Francis and his mother was Mae Quinlan Post, a person of mixed Cherokee heritage. His family moved to Oklahoma when he was five. He was an indifferent student, but managed to complete the sixth grade. By 1920, his family settled on a farm near [[Maysville, Oklahoma]].<ref name="EOHC-Post">Carlson. Erik D. [http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=PO023 "Post, Wiley Hardeman (1898–1935)."] ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''. Retrieved: April 10, 2015.</ref>{{efn|There is disagreement about Wiley Post's birthplace. Some sources say it was Grand Saline, Texas.<ref>Johnson, Bobby H. [http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fpo27 "Post, Wiley Hardeman."] ''The Texas State Historical Association''. Retrieved: April 3, 2009.</ref> This is what Post says in his chapter on his early history in "Around the World in Eight Days".<ref name="EOHC-Post"/> others claim he was born in [[Corinth, Van Zandt County, Texas]].<ref name="EOHC-Post"/> An old edition of the ''World Book'' claims it was Grand Plain, Texas. Even Maysville, Oklahoma has claimed the honor.<ref name="Oklahoman">[http://newsok.com/article/2656579 "Festival Celebrates Wiley Post's Birthplace." ''Oklahoman''. June 10, 1999.] Accessed January 19, 2017.</ref>}}

In 1913, Post first saw an aircraft in flight at the county fair in [[Lawton, Oklahoma]]. It was a Curtiss-Wright "[[pusher configuration|Pusher type]]". The event so inspired him that he immediately enrolled in the [[Sweeney Automobile School|Sweeney Automobile and Aviation School]] in [[Kansas City]]. Seven months later, he returned to Oklahoma, and went to work at the Chickasaw and Lawton Construction Company.<ref name="EOHC-Post"/>

During World War I Post wanted to become a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Service (USAS). Joining the training camp at the University of Oklahoma, he learned radio technology. Germany agreed to an armistice before he completed his training. The war ended, and he went to work as a "[[roughneck]]" in the Oklahoma oilfields. The work was unsteady, so he turned briefly to armed robbery. He was arrested in 1921 and sent to the [[Oklahoma State Reformatory]], serving more than a year there. He was paroled in summer 1922.<ref name="EOHC-Post"/>

==Early flying career==
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Post's aviation career began at age 26 as a parachutist for a flying circus, ''Burrell Tibbs and His Texas Topnotch Fliers,'' and he became well known on the [[barnstorming]] circuit. On October 1, 1926, he was badly injured in an oil-rig accident when a piece of metal pierced his left eye. An infection permanently blinded him in it, and he typically wore an eyepatch thereafter.<ref name="history.com">Maranzini, Barbara, "Wiley Post Makes History," History.com (July 22, 2013) https://www.history.com/news/wiley-post-makes-history</ref> He used the settlement money to buy his first aircraft.<ref name="history.com"/>

Around this time, Post met fellow Oklahoman Will Rogers when he flew Rogers to a rodeo, and they eventually became close friends. Post was the personal pilot of wealthy Oklahoma oilmen Powell Briscoe and F.C. Hall in 1930, when Hall bought a high-wing, single-engine [[Lockheed Vega]], one of the most famous record-breaking aircraft of the early 1930s.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} The oilman nicknamed it the ''[[Winnie Mae]]''<ref>{{cite web |title=Lockheed Vega Winnie Mae |url=https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/lockheed-vega-winnie-mae |website=Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum |access-date=20 February 2019 |archive-date=5 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160705214334/https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/lockheed-vega-winnie-mae |url-status=dead }}</ref> after his daughter, and Post achieved his first national prominence in it by winning the National Air Race Derby, from Los Angeles to Chicago. The fuselage was inscribed "Los Angeles to Chicago 9 hrs. 8 min. 2 sec. August 27, 1930."{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} Adam Charles Williams finished second with a time of 9 hrs. 9 min. 4 sec.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Gibbs |title=Oklahoma, Our Home |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9oVMPbbux40C&q=National+Air+Race+Derby+wiley+post&pg=PA224 |access-date=28 June 2019 |language=en |date=5 September 2006|publisher=Gibbs Smith |isbn=9781586854300 }}</ref> Post earned a prize of $7,500.<ref>''Around the World in Eight Days'' by Wiley Post and Harold Gatty (1989, p.10)</ref> The equivalent of $112,053 in 2020.

===Around the world===
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-11928, Ozeanflieger Wiley Post und Harold Gatty.jpg|thumb|220px|Wiley Post with [[Harold Gatty]] in Germany, 1931]]

In 1930, [[Circumnavigation world record progression|the record]] for [[Circumnavigation#Aviation|flying around the world]] was not held by a fixed-wing aircraft, but by the [[LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin|''Graf Zeppelin'']], piloted by [[Hugo Eckener]] in 1929 with a time of 21&nbsp;days. On June 23, 1931, Post and the Australian navigator [[Harold Gatty]] left [[Roosevelt Field]] on [[Long Island, New York]], in the ''Winnie Mae'' with a flight plan that would take them around the world, stopping at [[Harbour Grace, Newfoundland and Labrador|Harbour Grace]], [[RAF Sealand|Flintshire]], [[Hanover]] twice, [[Berlin Tempelhof Airport|Berlin]], [[Khodynka Aerodrome|Moscow]], [[Novosibirsk]], [[Irkutsk]], [[Blagoveshchensk]], [[Khabarovsk]], [[Nome, Alaska|Nome]] (where his propeller had to be repaired), [[Fairbanks, Alaska|Fairbanks]] (where the propeller was replaced), [[Edmonton City Centre (Blatchford Field) Airport|Edmonton]], and [[Cleveland Hopkins International Airport|Cleveland]] before returning to Roosevelt Field.<ref name="Orion Books">{{Cite book | isbn=0-517-57352-0 | title=Around the World in Eight Days: The Flight of the Winnie Mae | last1=Post | first1=Wiley | last2=Gatty | first2=Harold | year=1989 | publisher=Orion Books }}</ref>

They arrived back on July 1, after traveling {{convert|15474|miles|km}} in the record time of 8&nbsp;days and 15 hours and 51 minutes, in the first successful aerial circumnavigation by a single-engined monoplane. The reception they received rivaled [[Charles Lindbergh]]'s everywhere they went. They had lunch at the [[White House]] on July 7, rode in a [[ticker-tape parade]] the next day in New York City, and were honored at a banquet given by the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America at the [[Hotel Astor]]. After the flight, Post acquired the ''Winnie Mae'' from F.C. Hall. He and Gatty published an account of their journey, titled ''Around the World in Eight Days,'' with an introduction by Will Rogers.<ref name="Orion Books"/>

===First solo pilot===
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After the record-setting flight, Post wanted to open his own aeronautical school, but could not raise enough financial support because of doubts many had about his rural background and limited formal education. Motivated by his detractors, he decided to attempt a solo flight around the world and to break his previous speed record. Over the next year, he improved his aircraft by installing an [[autopilot]] device and a [[radio direction finder]], that were in their final stages of development by the [[Sperry Corporation|Sperry Gyroscope Company]] and the [[United States Army]].{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}

In 1933, Post repeated his flight around the world, this time using the auto-pilot and [[compass]] in place of his navigator and becoming the first to accomplish the feat alone. He departed from [[Floyd Bennett Field]] and continued on to Berlin where repairs were attempted to his autopilot, stopped at [[Kaliningrad Devau Airport|Königsberg]] to replace some forgotten maps,{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} Moscow for more repairs to his autopilot, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk for final repairs to the autopilot,{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} [[Skovorodino, Amur Oblast|Rukhlovo]], Khabarovsk, [[Flat, Alaska|Flat]] where his propeller had to be replaced, Fairbanks, Edmonton, and back to Floyd Bennett Field.  Fifty thousand people greeted him on his return on July 22 after 7&nbsp;days, 18 hours, 49 minutes.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160328182451/http://firstflight.org/wiley-h-post/ "Wiley H. Post"]. First Flight Society. Retrieved: June 23, 2020.</ref><ref>Meunier, Claude. [http://www.soloflights.org/post_data_e.html "WILEY POST"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304110851/http://www.soloflights.org/post_data_e.html |date=2016-03-04 }}. ''Solo flights around the world''. October 15, 2007. Retrieved: December 6, 2012.</ref>

==Pressure suit==
[[File:Wiley Post.jpg|thumb|upright|Post in his third pressure suit]]

In 1934, with financial support from [[Frank Phillips (oil industrialist)|Frank Phillips]] of the [[ConocoPhillips|Phillips Petroleum Company]], Post began exploring the limits of high-altitude long-distance flight. The ''Winnie Mae'''s cabin could not be pressurized, so he worked with Russell S. Colley of the [[BF Goodrich|B.F. Goodrich Company]] to develop what became the world's first practical [[pressure suit]]. Three pressure suits were fabricated for Post. Only the final version was successful. The first suit ruptured during a pressure test. The redesigned second suit used the same helmet as the first but when tested was too tight. They were unable to remove it from Post, so they had to cut him out, destroying the suit. The third suit was redesigned from the previous two.<ref>Young 2009, pp. 13–16.</ref><ref>Kozloski 1994, pp. 11–14.</ref>

The body of the suit had three layers: long underwear, an inner black rubber air pressure bladder, and an outer layer made of rubberized parachute fabric. The outer layer was glued to a frame with arm and leg joints that allowed him to operate the flight controls and to walk to and from the aircraft. Attached to the frame were pigskin gloves, rubber boots, and an aluminum-and-plastic diver's helmet.<ref name=Evo>Mallan 1971, p. 31.</ref>

The helmet had a removable faceplate that could be sealed at a height of {{convert|17,000|ft|abbr=on}}, and could accommodate [[earphones]] and a [[throat microphone]]. The helmet was cylinder-shaped with a circular window. In the first flight using the suit on September 5, 1934, Post reached an altitude of {{convert|40,000|ft|abbr=on}} above Chicago. Eventually flying as high as {{convert|50,000|ft|abbr=on}}, he discovered the [[jet stream]] and made the first major practical advances in pressurized flight.<ref name=Evo>Mallan 1971, p. 31.</ref> As of 2022, the suit is on [https://airandspace.si.edu/multimedia-gallery/si-98-15012hjpg display.]

===Attempted high altitude non-stop transcontinental flights===
[[File:Wiley Post Transcontinental Flights 1935.jpg|thumb|A [[Cover (philately)|cover]] flown by Post on all four of his attempts to make the first high altitude non-stop transcontinental flight from Los Angeles to New York, February–June 1935]]

Between February 22 and June 15, 1935, Post made four unsuccessful attempts to complete the first high altitude non-stop flight from Los Angeles to New York, all of which failed for various mechanical reasons. The first attempt on February 22 ended 57.5 miles north of Los Angeles at Muroc Field, CA (Now [[Edwards AFB]]). This was followed by attempts on March 15 (Cleveland, Ohio; 2,035 miles), April 14 (Lafayette, Indiana; 1,760 miles), and June 15 (Wichita, KS; 1,188 miles).

As the attempts were meant to be the "First Air Mail Stratosphere Flight" over U.S. Air Mail Route #2 (AM-2) from Los Angeles to New York, Post carried a quantity of "cacheted" [[Cover (philately)|cover]]s sponsored by [[Trans World Airlines|Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc]] on all four flights. When he was killed on August 15, 1935, ending the possibility of any more attempts to complete the AM-2 stratosphere flight, the covers were cancelled in Los Angeles on August 20, 1935, and forwarded to their addressees.{{citation needed|date=July 2019}}

==Final flight and death==
[[File:Will Rogers and Wiley Post cph.3b05600.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Post with Will Rogers, August 1935]]
In 1935, Post became interested in surveying a mail-and-passenger air route from the West Coast of the United States to Russia. Short on cash, he built a hybrid using parts salvaged from two different aircraft: the fuselage of an airworthy [[Lockheed Model 9 Orion|Lockheed Orion]] and the wings of a wrecked experimental [[Lockheed Explorer]]. The Explorer wing was six feet longer in span than the Orion's original wing, an advantage that extended the range of the hybrid aircraft.<ref name="Sterling 2001, p. 164">Sterling 2001, p. 164.</ref>

As the Explorer wing did not have retractable landing gear, it lent itself to the fitting of [[floatplane|floats]] for landing in the lakes of [[Alaska]] and [[Siberia]]. [[Lockheed Corporation|Lockheed]] refused to make the modifications Post requested, on the grounds that the two designs were incompatible and potentially a dangerous mix, so he made the changes himself.<ref name="Sterling 2001, p. 164">Sterling 2001, p. 164.</ref>

Post's friend, Will Rogers, visited him often at the airport in [[Burbank, California]], while Pacific Airmotive Ltd. was modifying the aircraft,<ref>Sterling 2001, pp. 167–169.</ref> and asked Post to fly him to Alaska in search of new material for his newspaper column. When the floats Post had ordered were delayed, he used a set designed for a larger aircraft, making the aircraft more nose-heavy than it already was.<ref>Johnson and Mohler. [http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/AnnalsofFlight/pdf_lo/SAOF-0008.pdf ''Wiley Post, His Winnie Mae, and the World's First Pressure Suit.'']  p. 112. Retrieved: 3 April 2009.</ref> According to the research of [[Bryan Sterling]], however, the floats were the correct type for the aircraft.<ref name="Sterling 2001, p. 164"/>

After making a test flight in July, Post and Rogers left [[Lake Washington]], near [[Seattle]], in early August and made several stops in Alaska. While Post piloted the aircraft, Rogers wrote his columns on his typewriter. On August 15, they left [[Fairbanks]] for [[Point Barrow]]. They were a few miles from there when they became uncertain of their position in bad weather and landed in a lagoon to ask for directions. On takeoff, the engine failed at low altitude, and the aircraft, uncontrollably nose-heavy at low speed, plunged into the lagoon, shearing off the right wing, and ended up inverted in the shallow part. Both Post and Rogers died instantly.<ref>Sterling 2001, p. 246.</ref>
Post is buried in [[Memorial Park Cemetery (Oklahoma City)|Memorial Park Cemetery]], section 48, [[Oklahoma City, Oklahoma]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=p5ZMMkkrSZUC&dq=wiley+post+memorial+park&pg=PA175 ''History Ahead'']</ref>

==Honors and tributes==
[[File:Wiley Post gravestone.jpg|thumb|The gravestone of Post]]

In 1936, the [[Smithsonian Institution]] acquired the ''Winnie Mae'' from Post's widow for $25,000. Two monuments at the [[Rogers-Post Site|crash site]] commemorate the death of him and Will Rogers and are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Rogers-Post|url=https://www.nps.gov/articles/rogers-post-site.htm |website=Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms |publisher=U.S. National Park Service |access-date=March 9, 2020 |language=en |date=September 3, 2017}}</ref> The nearby [[Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport]] located in [[Utqiagvik, Alaska]] bears their names.

[[Wiley Post Airport]], a large FAA designated [[reliever airport]] in Oklahoma City, is named after Post. [[Will Rogers World Airport|Oklahoma City's major commercial airport]] is named after Will Rogers, so that both victims of the crash are honored by airports in [[Oklahoma City]].  The [[Will Rogers – Wiley Post Memorial Seaplane Base]] is a [[seaplane]] base located on Lake Washington, at the north end of the [[Renton Municipal Airport]] in [[Renton, Washington]].

The U.S. [[Army Air Forces]], later the [[United States Air Force]], named a street after Post on the former Maywood Army Air Forces Specialized Storage Depot, later [[Cheli Air Force Station]]. No longer owned by the federal government, Wiley Post Road remains, connecting Bandini Boulevard and Lindbergh Lane in [[Bell, California]].

Post received the [[Distinguished Flying Cross (USA)|Distinguished Flying Cross]] (1932), the Gold Medal of Belgium (1934), and the [[Harmon Trophy|International Harmon Trophy]] (1934). In 1969, he was enshrined in the [[National Aviation Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Wiley Post: Dare Devil |url=http://nationalaviation.blade6.donet.com/components/content_manager_v02/view_nahf/htdocs/menu_ps.asp?NodeID=-244570675&group_ID=1134656385&Parent_ID=-1 |website=National Aviation Hall of Fame (NAHF) |access-date=April 3, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081005084943/http://nationalaviation.blade6.donet.com/components/content_manager_v02/view_nahf/htdocs/menu_ps.asp?NodeID=-244570675&group_ID=1134656385&Parent_ID=-1 |archive-date=October 5, 2008 |location=Dayton, OH |date=2006}}</ref> On December 17, 1970, he was inducted into the First Flight Society's First Flight Shrine, located at the [[Wright Brothers National Memorial]].

In 1997, Post was inducted into the [[International Air & Space Hall of Fame]] at the [[San Diego Air & Space Museum]].<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Sprekelmeyer |editor1-first=Linda |title=These we honor: the International Aerospace Hall of Fame |date=2006 |publisher=Donning Co. Publishers |isbn=978-1-57864-397-4}}</ref>

In 1979, the [[United States Postal Service]] honored Post with two [[airmail]] [[Postage stamp|stamps]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Horwitz |first1=Ed |title=Wiley Post remembered as aviation pioneer |work=Stamps |date=1995|issn=0038-9358}}</ref>

In 2004, Post was inducted posthumously into the [[Oklahoma Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Post, Wiley {{!}} 2004 |url=https://oklahomahof.com/member-archives/p/post-wiley-2004 |website=Oklahoma Hall of Fame |access-date=March 9, 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

For many years, The Wiley Post Commission, based in Oklahoma City, presented the annual Wiley Post Spirit Award to "an individual in general aviation who best exemplifies the innovative and pioneering spirit of Wiley Post".<ref>{{cite news |title=Wiley Post Spirit Award presented to international aviator for the first time |url=http://generalaviationnews.com/2007/01/05/wiley-post-spirit-award-presented-to-international-aviator-for-first-time/ |access-date=April 10, 2015 |work=General Aviation News |date=January 5, 2007}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[British Air Transport (painting)|''British Air Transport'' (painting)]]
*[[Jerrie Mock]], first woman to fly solo around the world (1964, in the ''[[Spirit of Columbus]]'')

==Notes==
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==References==
'''Citations'''
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'''Bibliography'''
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* Johnson, Bobby H. [http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fpo27 "Post, Wiley Hardeman."] ''The Texas State Historical Association''. Retrieved: April 3, 2009.
* Johnson, Bobby H. and R. Stanley Mohler. ''Wiley Post, His Winnie Mae, and the World's First Pressure Suit.'' Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1971. {{ISBN|978-0-8061-3768-1}}.
* Kozloski, Lillian D. [https://books.google.com/books?id=v5JOPgAACAAJ ''U.S. Space Gear: Outfitting The Astronaut.''] Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. {{ISBN|0-87474-459-8}}.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20040419021613/http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/aero/aircraft/lockheed_5c.htm "Lockheed 5C Vega."]  ''Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum''. Retrieved: April 3, 2009.
* Mallan, Lloyd. [https://books.google.com/books?id=bLdTAAAAMAAJ&q=Suiting+Up+For+Space ''Suiting Up For Space: The Evolution of the Space Suit.''] New York: The John Day Company, 1971.
* Onkst, David H. [https://web.archive.org/web/20121008043851/http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Explorers_Record_Setters_and_Daredevils/Wiley_Post/EX27.htm " Wiley Post."] ''U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission''. Retrieved: 3 April 2009.
* Post, Wiley.''Around The World In Eight Days''. New York: Crown Book, reprint 1989. {{ISBN|0-517-57352-0}}.
*Sterling, Bryan and Frances. ''Forgotten Eagle: Wiley Post: America's Heroic Aviation Pioneer''. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2001. {{ISBN|0-7867-0894-8}}.
* [http://www.century-of-flight.net/Aviation%20history/pathfinders/Wiley%20Post.htm "Wiley Post."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513191447/http://www.century-of-flight.net/Aviation%20history/pathfinders/Wiley%20Post.htm |date=2008-05-13 }}. ''Century of Flight''. Retrieved: April 3, 2009.
* [http://www.acepilots.com/post.html "Wiley Post and the Winnie Mae."] ''AcePilots.com'', 2003. Retrieved: April 3, 2009.
* Young, Amanda. [https://books.google.com/books?id=D-sxPQAACAAJ&q=Spacesuits ''Spacesuits: The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Collection.'']  Brooklyn, NY: House Cultural Entertainment Inc., 2009. {{ISBN|978-1-57687-498-1}}.
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==External links==
*[http://www.wileypost.org wileypost.org]
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=xd8DAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22Popular+Mechanics%22+Jan+1935+floating&pg=PA492 "Wiley Post seeks New Record"] ''Popular Mechanics'', October 1934 pp.&nbsp;492–494
*[http://rentonwa.gov/living/default.aspx?id=254 Renton Municipal Airport – Will Rogers-Wiley Post Seaplane Base] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081004140647/http://rentonwa.gov/living/default.aspx?id=254 |date=2008-10-04 }}.

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