Air mail service
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Variants: Airmail service; Postal service--Air mailFound in 24 Collections and/or Records:
Ron Weisberg Elmer G. Cross photographs collection
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 000523]
Identifier: 2018-10-01-A
Contents of the Collection
This small collection contains four (4) black-and-white photographs of Elmer Cross and relates to his airmail pilot career for Pitcairn Aviation during 1928. Each of the photographs are 8x10" and include information on the reverse. One photograph shows Cross seated in a partially obscured unidentified aircraft with another man standing next to the U.S. Mail plane. A handwritten caption on the reverse reads "Elmer G. Cross, 6/11/28, as he joins Pitcairn Aviation to fly U.S. mail."...
Dates:
1928
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Frank R. Yager Collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2018-07-24
Content Description
The Frank R. Yager Collection consists of items documenting Yager's career as an airmail pilot. Included are three logbooks, his pilot's licenses and certificates, and 14 photographs. The photographs consist of both snapshots and formal group portraits as well as some views of airmail planes. There are few identifications with the photographs, but also depicted are Lee Patterson, Jack Knight, and C.F. Egge. Additionally, there are photocopies of other images. There is one folder of...
Dates:
1918-1946, 1994
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Scarff, John Bowen -- oral history interview, 2017 May 06
File
Interview Summary
U.S. Navy veteran John Bowen Scarff is interviewed about his father, Wayland Labatt Scarff, and about his military service after World War II. He discusses his father’s career at the fledgling Boeing Company in the mid-1910s and his work at Boeing Plant 1, also known as the Red Barn. Scarff also provides an overview of his military service in the postwar period, including his enlistment at Sand Point Naval Air Station (Washington) and his aviation machinist training at Norman Naval Air...
Dates:
2017 May 06