ALL PHOTOS Record
Images
Metadata
Object ID |
2-437 |
Title |
Man climbing into airplane. |
Description |
This looks like a DeHavilland DH-4 that was flown during WWI era and used to deliver mail in the U.S. after the war. Per Wikipedia: The U.S. Post Office also adopted the DH-4 to carry air mail. The Service acquired 100 of them from the army in 1918, and retrofitted them to make them safer, denominating them as the DH-4B.[57] In 1919, the DH-4B was standardised by the US Post Office, being modified to be flown from the rear cockpit with a 400 lb (180 kg) watertight mail compartment replacing the forward cockpit. The airmail DH-4B were later modified with revised landing gear and an enlarged rudder.[59] DH-4s were used to establish a coast-to-coast, transcontinental airmail service, between San Francisco and New York, a distance of 2,680 mi (4,310 km), involving night flight, the first services starting on 21 August 1924.[57] The DH-4 continued in Post Office service until 1927, when the last airmail routes were passed to private contractors (P. LaBerge, resident, 9/8/2020) |
Search Terms |
Pre-1925 Transportation |
Accession number |
2 |
Collection |
Coppell Historical Society Photo Collection |