The First Air Mail Flight at Johnston Airfield, Patton Township

1938

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The First Air Mail Flight at Johnston Airfield, Patton Township
  • Title
  • The First Air Mail Flight at Johnston Airfield, Patton Township
  • Date
  • 1938
  • Identifier
  • 20110202-hpicmonroeville-0152
  • Source Identifier
  • 105
  • Description
  • The first air mail flight at Johnston Airfield, Patton Township was celebrated in this 1938 photograph (l to r: 2, Johnston, 5, H. Vogel, instructor, 6, P. Ball, Gulf Aviation, 7, Theresa James). Established in 1926, Johnston’s Airport was the oldest of the three local fields. In the 1930s it became the transfer point for airmail for the Pitcairn Post Office, and regular air mail service was initiated. A similar mail transfer point for the Wilmerding Post Office was established at Patton Township’s Bohinski’s Field, where for a time, an aerial mail pickup system devised by Dr. Lytle S. Adams of Irwin, Pa. was tested, and later widely deployed.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Air mail service--Pennsylvania--Monroeville.
    Airplanes--Pennsylvania--Monroeville.
    Airports--Pennsylvania--Monroeville
    Monroeville (Pa.)--History.
  • Source
  • hpicmonroeville
  • Contributor
  • Monroeville Historical Society
  • Collection
  • Monroeville Historical Society Collection
  • Rights Information
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