With 2026, United Airlines is proudly kicking off its centenary year. Very few carriers can look back on 100 years of ...

Sonoma County made aviation history 114 years ago when local pilot Fred J. Wiseman glided his biplane from Petaluma to Santa Rosa to deliver mail and newspapers — marking the first airmail flight in ...

In 1912 the idea of flight was still new to most people, including those who lived in Marietta. The idea that man could overcome gravity and fly through the sky was something that most had to see to ...

On this day in aviation history, 84 years ago (November 30, 1941), airmail was flown via jet aircraft for the first time. The Caproni Campini N.1, an Italian experimental jet aircraft which first flew ...

"Mavericks of the Sky: The First Daring Pilots of the U.S. Air Mail." By Barry Rosenberg and Catherine Macaulay. William Morrow. 341 Pages. $25.95. Although the U.S. Air Mail Service began only 90 ...

When a biplane took off from an airfield in Southeast Washington on April 6, 1926, it marked a turning point in the future of flight. It was the first commercial U.S. Air Mail flight. The plane ...

The world’s first airmail delivery ever sanctioned by a U.S. Post Office and its postmaster was made between Petaluma and Santa Rosa in 1911. The airplane that made that flight was built in Sonoma ...

On December 25, 1918 a daring French industrialist launched the world's first ever airmail service, flying between the southwestern French city of Toulouse and Barcelona in northeastern Spain. It was ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. To demonstrate the potential of transporting mail by air, the United States Post Office authorized a series of special air mail flights as part of ...

Airmail service was first tested in the US in 1911, but airplanes were a new invention and too risky for the federal government to invest in for reliable service. In 1918, the Post Office Department ...

Pan American Airways (Pan Am) inaugurated transatlantic air mail service under scheduled contract (Foreign Air Mail FAM 18) in 1939. This collection consists of a letter from Kathryn Schieferecke to ...