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unusual facts about mail plane



De Havilland DH.14 Okapi

The third aircraft was the first to fly, and it was completed by Airco at Hendon as the DH.14A, a two-seat long-range mail plane.

Elliptical wing

The German Heinkel He 70 of the early 1930s was a fast mail plane and reconnaissance bomber, and the predecessor to the Heinkel He 111 bomber, early models of which used an elliptical wing.

Keystone B-6

B-6 aircraft were used, along with many other Army Air Corps planes, as mail planes in what became the Air Mail scandal of 1934.

Mary Feik

She restored antique and classic aircraft and has participated in the construction of reproduction World War I aircraft, helping restore the National Air and Space Museum’s 1910 Wiseman-Cooke aircraft, a WWI Spad XIII fighter, Betty Skelton's Little Stinker and a 1930 Northrop “Alpha” mail plane.

Ryan M-1

The Ryan M-1 was a mail plane produced in the United States in the 1920s, the first original design built by Ryan.

T. Claude Ryan

The first aircraft this company, Ryan Airlines, produced was called the Ryan M-1 mail plane developed in 1926.It was the first production monoplane in the country.


see also

K37

Junkers K 37, a German mail plane developed in Sweden as a prototype multi-role military aircraft in 1927