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Aircraft accidents

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Richard C. du Pont and Summit Aviation scrapbooks and photographs

 Collection
Accession: 2009-211
Abstract:

Richard C. du Pont (1911-1943) was an aviator and businessman. In 1938, he purchaseds stock of an inactive company called All American Aviation, Inc. and became PresidentThis collection encompasses the time of Richard C. du Pont's marriage to his death, with a particular focus on his work with gliders. The establishment and growth of Summit Aviation, his son's private air transportation company, is heavily documented from the early 1960s onward. The majority of the collection consists of newspaper clippings and photographs.

Dates: 1930-2002

United States Air Mail Service photographs

 Collection
Accession: 1982-328
Abstract:

The collection consists of photographs taken during the first years of the United States Post Office Department air mail service. Many of these photographs are portraits of individual air mail service pilots. The first use of air mail in the United States occurred in September, 1911, while the first air mail route from Washington to New York via Philadelphia started in 1918. A transcontinental route was established by 1920. In 1925 the government transitioned out of the air mail business with the passage of the Kelly Air Mail Act, which called for commericial airlines to bid on air mail routes established by the Post Office.

Dates: 1911-1929