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Stock #: 235781
Type: Postcard
Era: Continental Chrome
Publisher: Unicover Corporation
Postmark: 1989 Nov-19
PM City: Washington
PM State: DC
Stamp: 25c
Size: 4" x 5.75" (10.25 x 15 cm)

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First Day of Issue: November 19, 1989; First Issue Location: Washington, D.C. Postal service and delivery have come a long way since ancient runners memorized messages or carried them by hand. Today, with the help of the airplane, correspondence is routinely flown across continents and even the wide oceans in a matter of hours. The maiden voyage of airplane mail flight was made only eight years after the Wright brothers flew their first frail plane at Kitty Hawk. In 1918, the world's first regular airmail service commenced with a flight between New York City and Washington, D.C. By 1939, routine service across the North Atlantic was instituted, and soon daring mail pilots were blazing new routes to the remotest ends of the earth. The cachet on this Maximum Card pictures a celebration of the takeover of airmail routes by civilian post Office flyers. Previously, airmail had been flown by military pilots. Seated in the plane is Ed Gardner, an early airmail flyer. The man standing at the center of the picture with his coat over his arm is Ben Lipsner, who was the Superintendent of the Aerial Mail Service

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