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unusual facts about airmail


3d Operations Group

It participated in maneuvers, tested new equipment, experimented with tactics, flew in aerial reviews, patrolled the United States–Mexico border (1929), and carried Airmail (1934) flying a wide variety of biplanes (DH-4, XB-1A, GA-1, A-3).


110th Bomb Squadron

Their chief pilot on the "St. Louis to Chicago" airmail run was a lanky young man named Charles Lindbergh.

AMC Cavalier

The Sharjah Post Office issued a 3 dirham (Dh) airmail stamp in January 1971 depicting a drawing of the AMC Cavalier (Michel catalog stamp number 783).

Avro 618 Ten

Two of this fleet were lost in accidents: Southern Cloud in the Toolong range of the Australian Alps on 21 March 1931 (the wreckage was not found until 1958) and Southern Sun in Malaya in November 1931, while attempting the first airmail flight to the United Kingdom.

Censorship in the Republic of Ireland

Using the Black List and White List to target certain mail, the small staff were unable to effect 100% censorship; however, continental European mail was all reviewed, as was all incoming and outbound airmail.

China Clipper flight departure site

Earhart's navigator, Fred Noonan, had been navigator aboard China Clipper during the initial airmail flight.

Croydon Road Recreation Ground

The United Kingdom’s first manned airmail flight left from here in 1902, travelling to Calais by hot air balloon The event was held to celebrate the coronation of King Edward VII.

Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott

Embry-Riddle began in 1925 as the Embry-Riddle Company, an aircraft dealer and airmail provider, founded by Talton Higbee Embry and John Paul Riddle in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Ford Air Transport Service

In 1928 Ford sold the airmail routes to Stout who also was operating his own airline with Stout-Ford built aircraft.

Gettysburg Airport

The Gettysburg Flying Service operated airplane tours of the battefield from the west slope of Oak Ridge in the 1920s (cf. the Battlefield Airways at the Battlefield Airport across from The Peach Orchard), and the field was a 1939 site on the initial transcontinental airmail line.

Gustav Hamel

In the exploit for which he is best remembered, Hamel flew a Blériot on Saturday 9 September 1911, covering the 21 miles between Hendon and Windsor in 18 minutes (took off at 4:55pm and arrived at 5:13pm) to deliver the first official airmail to the Postmaster General.

Kawanishi K-7 Transport Seaplane

The K-7A entered service on Nippon Kokus service between Osaka and Fukuoka in January 1925, mainly carrying airmail rather than passengers.

Kawanishi K-8 Transport Seaplane

The five K-8As were all used by Nippon Koku for its airmail service between Osaka and Fukuoka.

Pacific Air Transport

This was because the airmail aircraft would have to traverse the 7,000 ft Siskiyou Mountains on the Oregon-California border.

Ralph Ambrose O'Neill

He founded the New York, Rio, and Buenos Aires Line, flying the first airmail from Argentina to Miami in a Sikorsky S-38.

Russian Post

The company held a ceremony at Yakutsk Airport to launch its second new airmail plane under a programme to expand links to remote areas, its first being a flight in the Khabarovsk Krai territory on Russia’s east coast.

Stout Air Services

In 1928 Stout Air Services purchased airmail routes from Ford Air Transport Service.

Transcontinental Air Transport

Keys enlisted the help of Charles Lindbergh to design a transcontinental network to get government airmail contracts.

World War II Radio Heroes: Letters of Compassion

Mrs. Earl Seigle of Tyler, Texas sent a letter to Martha Spahr by airmail special delivery.


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