Transcontinental Airway System
The Transcontinental Airway System was a navigational aid deployed in the United States during the 1920s.
1928 Commemorative Beacon on Sherman Hill
Light, tower, shed, and concrete arrow
These are the remnants of Transcontinental Air Mail Route Beacon 37A, which was located atop a bluff in St. George, Utah, U.S.A. With concrete arrows indicating the direction to the next beacon, a rotating light tower, and a shed that usually held a generator and fuel tanks, these beacons were once situated every 10 miles on air routes across the United States beginning around 1923.
Beacon 61B on a modern display tower, originally installed on route CAM-8 near Castle Rock, WA
United States airmail service
United States airmail was a service class of the United States Post Office Department (USPOD) and its successor United States Postal Service (USPS) delivering air mail by aircraft flown within the United States and its possessions and territories. Letters and parcels intended for air mail service were marked as "Via Air Mail", appropriately franked, and assigned to any then existing class or sub-class of the Air Mail service.
Cover flown on the first day of scheduled Air Mail Service in the U.S. and franked with the first U.S. Air Mail stamp, the 24 Cent "Jenny"(C-3). Cancel: "AIR MAIL SERVICE – WASH. N.Y. PHILA." "MAY 15, 1918 – FIRST TRIP" "PHILA." (Type: USPOD CDS w/killer bars)
Wise ascends on the first United States balloon airmail from Lafayette, Indiana in 1859.
Eddie Hubbard (left) and William E. Boeing stand in front of a Boeing C-700 seaplane near Seattle.
The first U.S. Air Mail takes off from Washington, D.C., on May 15, 1918.
