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Title: Los Angeles Airways helicopter taking off from the roof of Terminal Annex Post Office, first helicopter air-mail, 1947

Published caption: NEW MAIL SERVICE -- Los Angeles Airways helicopter shown landing on the roof of Terminal Annex Post office yesterday to inaugurate helicopter air-mail service, the first of its kind in the United States. Two flights daily are planned on this run with another to start Oct. 16.

Source

Los Angeles Times photographic archive, UCLA Library.
http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/dlib/lat/display.cfm?ms=uclalat_1429_b25_48087&searchType=subject&subjectID=215181
Photo ID: uclalat_1429_b25_48087

Date

October 2, 1947

Author

Los Angeles Times

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Other versions Other photos of LA Airways Sikorsky-S-51: 1951 photo, Sikorsky S-51, 1959

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