Click to open image viewer. This is a badge issued by the Post Office Department’s airmail service office. Badges were issued to pilots, mechanics and officials who worked at postal airfields across ...

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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 ...

Brave aviation pioneers pushed the boundaries of flight in Wyoming skies. The brave pilots who flew mail for the US airmail service in the 1920s were responsible for many major innovations in aviation ...

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 ...