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H-81%u2014%u2014June 22, 1935%u2014%u2014Farmland%u2014%u2014Municipal Airport%u2014%u201450 pieces cancelled.Backstamp Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 24, 1935.The Farmland Municipal Airport was one of four Airport Dedications in Indiana that was visited by the Seventh Indiana Air Tour in 1935. The others were located at Portland, Rensselaer, and Columbus. Signed by Clarence McElroy of Medaryville, Indiana. In 1932, he and another flier, Roy Gordon, crash landed in Mexico while attempting to deliver their airplane to Honduras. Gordon was killed, and McElroy wandered the jungles of Oxaca for 17 days before being found by a local Indian and rescued. (See photo of McElroy on next page with description of his ordeal.) McElroy met his future wife, Lenor Harper, on the Fifth Indiana Air Tour. At the time, she was one of only two women in Indiana with a transport pilot's license. After they married, they honeymooned on the Eighth Indiana Air Tour.Signed by Glenn Barr of Detroit%u2019s Barr Aviation Corporation. While he flew a Stinson into Farmland, Barr later became the authorized Piper Cub dealer for the state of Michigan and he also sold Franklin aircraft engines. In July of 1954, his company sponsored an airplane in the Eighth Annual All-Woman Transcontinental Air Race (also known as the Powder Puff Derby) which ran from Long Beach, California to Knoxville, Tennessee. The plane, a Piper Pacer PA-20, was piloted by Alice H. Hammond of Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, with Jean H. Pearson of Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan as co-pilot.Signed by pilot Herbert O. Fisher, of Indianapolis, who at the time was Director of the Seventh Indiana Air Tour, and Director of Aeronautics for the Chamber of Commerce. During World War II, Fisher was a civilian trainer for the famed Flying Tigers, and was awarded the Air Medal by President Roosevelt. He was later inducted into the Aviation Pioneers Hall of Fame, received the China-Burma-India Veterans Association's Americanism Award, and was named a General Jimmy Doolittle Educational Fellow at the Air Force Association. In 1983, he was inducted into the Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum of New Jersey, and in 2011 was posthumously inducted into the Niagara Frontier Aviation & Space Hall of Fame. Fisher flew for over 50 years, and racked up 19,351 accident- and violation-free hours.Addressee, George Fawkes, was a Canadian Pacific Railway employee. He joined the American Air Mail Society in 1931, and was regularly mentioned in The Airpost Journal up until 1939, often because of his interest in airport dedication covers. He was also an active member of the Canadian Aerophilatelic Society.