Registration / Serial: | NC3468 |
Alternate Registration: | C3468 |
Aircraft Original Type: | Pitcairn PA-5 Mailwing |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Pitcairn PA-5 Mailwing |
Aircraft Version: | Pitcairn PA-5 Mailwing |
C/n (msn): | 7 |
Operator Titles: | US Mail / American Railway Express |
City / Airport: | Boston - General Edward Lawrence Logan International (KBOS / BOS)Map |
Region / Country: | Massachusetts, United States |
Photo Date: | 12 April 1928 |
Photo from: | AirHistory.net Photo Archive |
Photo ID: | 638278Submit Correction |
View count: | 265 |
There were still few passenger airlines in America in 1928 and here mail on route CAM-1 from New York is delivered to Boston by a new PA-5 mailplane. CAM-1 was contracted to Colonial Air Transport, who apparently hired this aircraft. Pilot Ray Wonsey is known to have flown a Mailwing for Colonial around this time. NC3468 was registered to Phineas Millis, the owner of an airfield in Mendon, Massachusetts in 1928. Note logo of American Railway Express. This was a package delivery service like UPS or DHL, which did not operate aircraft itself. Photo by: Leslie Jones / Boston Public Library
Registration / Serial: | NC3468 |
Alternate Registration: | C3468 |
Aircraft Version: | Pitcairn PA-5 Mailwing |
C/n (msn): | 7 |
Operator Titles: | US Mail / American Railway Express |
City / Airport: | Boston - General Edward Lawrence Logan International (KBOS / BOS)Map | Region / Country: | Massachusetts, United States |
Photo Date: | 12 April 1928 |
Photo from: | AirHistory.net Photo Archive |
Registration / Serial: | NC3468 |
Alternate Registration: | C3468 |
Aircraft Original Type: | Pitcairn PA-5 Mailwing |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Pitcairn PA-5 Mailwing |
Aircraft Version: | Pitcairn PA-5 Mailwing |
C/n (msn): | 7 |
Operator Titles: | US Mail / American Railway Express |
City / Airport: | Boston - General Edward Lawrence Logan International (KBOS / BOS)Map |
Region / Country: | Massachusetts, United States |
Photo Date: | 12 April 1928 |
Photo from: | AirHistory.net Photo Archive |
Photo ID: | 638278Submit Correction |
View count: | 265 |
There were still few passenger airlines in America in 1928 and here mail on route CAM-1 from New York is delivered to Boston by a new PA-5 mailplane. CAM-1 was contracted to Colonial Air Transport, who apparently hired this aircraft. Pilot Ray Wonsey is known to have flown a Mailwing for Colonial around this time. NC3468 was registered to Phineas Millis, the owner of an airfield in Mendon, Massachusetts in 1928. Note logo of American Railway Express. This was a package delivery service like UPS or DHL, which did not operate aircraft itself. Photo by: Leslie Jones / Boston Public Library
Registration / Serial: | NC3468 |
Alternate Registration: | C3468 |
Aircraft Version: | Pitcairn PA-5 Mailwing |
C/n (msn): | 7 |
Operator Titles: | US Mail / American Railway Express |
City / Airport: | Boston - General Edward Lawrence Logan International (KBOS / BOS)Map | Region / Country: | Massachusetts, United States |
Photo Date: | 12 April 1928 |
Photo from: | AirHistory.net Photo Archive |