National Postal Museum
Photograph of airmail plane Curtiss JN-4H
May 15, 1918
Curtiss JN-4H “Jenny” airmail plane being positioned for takeoff for the first regularly scheduled airmail service. The airplane is taking off from the temporary airfield at Washington DC’s Polo Field, a small strip of grassy land between the Tidal Basin and Potomac River.
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