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Curtiss JN-4H model
The airplane's number, 38262, represents the aircraft flown by Major Reuben Fleet from Bustleton field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Washington, D.C. just before the official mail service began. Airplane 38262 was assigned to Lt. George Boyle as the first airplane to fly airmail out of Washington, D.C., in the new airmail service on May 15, 1918.
- Date
- 1918-1919
- Type
- Transportation Equipment & Models
- Medium
- wood; metal; cotton; plastic
- Department
- NPM
- Institution
- National Postal Museum
- Object number
- npm_2002.2018.1