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The first Western Air Express flight departed #onthisday in 1926 with an airmail flight from LA to Salt Lake City in a Douglas M-2 mailplane. Within a year, the young airline was responsible for delivering 40% of the volume of the nation's airmail on its Los Angeles mail service. Western Air Express changed its name to Western Airlines in 1941 and was acquired by Delta Air Lines in 1986. Image: Western Air Express brochure, general service, c. 1929. Gift of Barnaby Conrad III. 2001.038.120 This image was posted on April 17, 2017.

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