- Date
- 1926-04-07
- Kind
- Transportation
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- aviationcommunicationtransportationhistoryweathermaritime
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The Beacon’s historical reprint describes the 1926 first airplane mail delivery to Beaver Island after winter isolation and a broken telephone cable, including the difficult overland and lake flight and the arrival of more than 400 pounds of mail.
Evidence limits
This is a 1994 reprint of a retrospective narrative, not an original 1926 Postal Service flight log or aviation record.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, February 1994, “The First Air Mail to Beaver Island,” from Phil Gregg’s Beaver Tales.Recounts the 1926 mail flight after a broken telephone cable, the Chicago-to-Charlevoix trip, a snow landing at Lawton, the April 7 Beaver Island flight with more than 400 pounds of mail, and the death of the mail horse Jackie on the ice. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1994-02_Beaver-Beacon
- The held sixteen-page issue scan confirms the historical reprint.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1994-02_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “The Beacon reprints the first air-mail flight to Beaver Island in 1926”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-first-air-mail-1926-reprinted-1994/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 1994, “The First Air Mail to Beaver Island,” from Phil Gregg’s Beaver Tales. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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