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Photograph of JR-1B mail airplane designed by the Standard Aircraft Corporation
Object Details
- Description
- In 1918 the Standard Aircraft Corporation of Plainfield, New Jersey, redesigned six of their 1918 E-4 airplanes for airmail service, fitting them with 150-horsepower Hispano-Suiza engines and longer top wings. The redesigned aircraft were purchased by the Post Office Department. Airmail pilot Max Miller painted a U.S. mailbag on the side of this airplane, numbered 1.
- National Postal Museum, Benjamin Lipsner Collection
- Photographer: Unknown
- Credit line
- National Postal Museum, Benjamin Lipsner Collection Photographer: Unknown
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- 1920s
- Object number
- A.2008-4
- Type
- Photographs
- Medium
- paper; photo-emulsion
- Place
- United States of America
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Record ID
- npm_A.2008-4
- Usage
- Not determined
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