First mail plane

First mail plane: Origformat: Print-Photographic
First mail plane

Origformat: Print-Photographic

Name/Title

First mail plane

Entry/Object ID

2003.546f.6491

Description

The first airplane to deliver mail to Brunswick landed on 6/12/1922 at the new Brunswick Aviation field off River Road near the golf course. Written on the back of the photo is, "Later in the day the plane ran into a fence on take off and eventually had to be disassembled and shipped to available source of repairs. Parts were non available in Brunswick and vicinity." The black and white photo was published in The Times Record in Brunswick, Maine, on 1/22/1985.

Collection

Times Record

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Times Record, First mail Plane, Biplanes