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Robert Byrd, along with pilot Bernt Balchen, co-pilot/radioman Harold June, and photographer Ashley McKinley made the first flight over the South Pole on November 28th, 1929 in a Ford Trimotor airplane named the Floyd Bennett (who was Byrds pilot on previous expeditions).

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