Bellefonte and the early air mail, 1918-1927
Late in 1918, air mail service in the United States moved from being an experiment into the first phases of a complex nationwide system, under the U.S. Post Office Department. Bellefonte, a small town in central Pennsylvania, was in the right place at the right time -- exactly where a refueling stop...
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Bellefonte, Pa. :
American Philatelic Society,
Ã2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter one: Beaver Field; The earliest flights to Bellefonte; Difficult summer of 1919; Hangar fire, November 15, 1919
- Chapter two: Terrain and weather; Aircraft; Navigation; Radio; Transcontinental service
- Chapter three: Second Bellefonte airfield, 1925; Beacons; Airfield crews
- Chapter four: The Pilots: Stationed in Bellefonte or the Eastern Division; Deaths of local friends and in Pennsylvania (Lamborn, Miller, Stevens, Robinson, Leonhardt, Hyde-Pearson)
- Chapter five: Charles H. Ames, February 2, 1894 - October 1, 1925
- Chapter six: Pilots in the local news (Anglin; Bertaud; Bradford; Collins; Ellis; Hopson; Knight; Lewis; Logg; Murphy; Robillard; Smith, Paul; Smith, Wesley)
- Chapter seven: 1927 and Beyond: Private contracts for airmail; Airmail tenth anniversary, 1928; James Cleveland plane crash, 1931; National Air Mail week, 1938; "Old 249," 1968; Pennsylvania state historical marker at airfield, 1969; Airmail pilots' monument, American Philatelic Center, 2005
- Chapter eight: U.S. Airmail Stamps and Postal Rates by Ken Lawrence
- Appendix: Bellefonte citations, American Air Mail Catalogue.
