Mail pouch from first airmail flight over the North Pole

Charles F. Blair, American, died 1978 · May 29, 1951

U. S. Air Mail mailbag carried on the first airmail flight over the North Pole aboard a single-engine World War II fighter plane, the P-51 Mustang, on May 29, 1951. Capt. Charles F. Blair, an airline pilot, whose actual objective was to prove whether non-military trans-polar flights were feasible, piloted the plane.