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and the pilot, Harold F. Caroon. On the back, it is postmarked Indianapolis, Ind, also on May 19, 1938, the same date it left Fowler. When Pete gave me this, the tan-colored card was inside.The Cover from Dayton OH to Washington, DC is a First Jet Flight Cover. It has a May 30, 1953 cancellation over the stamp. On the back is another cancellation for the same date in Washington, which also notes that it was a 54-minute flight that left Dayton at 3:54 PM and arrived in Washington at 4:48 PM.The last Cover is for regular mail service, by air (it didn%u2019t need an air-mail stamp), between Chicago, IL and Washington DC. It was cancelled on the front in Chicago on October 6, 1953, and on the back in Washington DC on the same date. A First Flight Cover was carried by an aircraft on its inaugural flight for a particular postal route. When one has a postmark at the arrival destination, it is proof that it was actually carried on the flight. Although earlier flights carried air mail (like the balloon ), the first officially scheduled airmail flight was on May 15, 1918, between Washington D.C. and New York City.The Cover below celebrates the first flight from New Orleans to Houston on January 23, 1929. Its stamp shows an airplane flying past an air beacon on Sherman Hill in the Rocky Mountains.The following three First-Flight Covers were given to me by Pete McNeely. My favorite is the one that originated at the Fowler, Indiana airport. It was signed by both Fowler%u2019s Postmaster, Leo McGrath