Photograph of airmail pilot Lloyd Bertaud
National Postal Museum

Photograph of airmail pilot Lloyd Bertaud

c. 1924

paper; photo-emulsion
National Postal Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
National Postal Museum

Lloyd W. Bertaud joined the US Post Office Department's Airmail Service on November 16, 1927. He was assigned to the Cleveland, Ohio, airmail field until he left the service on July 2, 1927. Before his life as an airmail pilot, Bertaud and Eddie Stinson set a world endurance record in a Junkers JL-6 monoplane.

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