First air mail postal delivery
1911 September 23
- Title
- First air mail postal delivery
- Collection
- Caltech Photographs
- Series
- Photographs of Individuals
- Dates
- 1911 September 23
- Extents
- 1 photographs
- Abstract
- The first air mail route in the US was a flight of six miles over Hempstead Plains on Long Island. Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock is shown handing pilot Earle Ovington a light bag of mail. von Karman Papers.