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File:Unloading Airmail in Omaha, Nebraska on July 1, 1924 (2550291127).jpg

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Description: The Post Office Department inaugurated its first regularly scheduled transcontinental flights during day and night on July 1, 1924. The addition of lighted airfields and a path of beacon lights across the country allowed airmail pilots to fly by night as well as during the day. The deHavilland (DH-4B) airplane had been flown by airmail pilot Frank Yager, who had left North Platte, Nebraska, for Omaha at 11:20 p.m. When he reached Omaha, over 3,000 people had crowded the airfield to welcome him. Text on the photograph notes that it was made "by use of field flood lights."

Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer

Medium: Black and white photographic print

Culture: American

Date: 1924

Collection: U.S. Airmail Service

Repository: National Postal Museum

Accession number: A.2006-8

Persistent URL: arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=194260

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