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It's National Parks Week! The wonder, beauty, and magnificence of our country's national parks make them popular imagery in airline advertisements, even going back to the 1930s. What's your favorite park? While we're partial to the parks in California (naturally!), among our favorites is @wrightbrosnps - check out their feed for some aviation history!
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Though tiny, National Parks Airways, serving Utah, Idaho, and Montana in the 1920s and ‘30s, was nevertheless successful enough to acquire three Boeing 247 aircraft, one of which is featured on its calendar for 1937.
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Century Pacific Air Lines was one of the early commercial airline companies to operate at Mills Field.
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Flight packets given to passengers in the 1940s and 1950s consisted of various passenger information and amenities including postcards, luggage tags, route maps, and informational materials on aircraft and aviation procedures.
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Some fantastic graphics appear on this National Air Transport timetable from 1929, and airmail prices are advertised at 5¢ for the first ounce.
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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.
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The Lockheed Model 10 Electra was introduced in 1935 as the manufacturer's first all-metal aircraft, developed to compete with the Douglas DC-2 and Boeing 247.
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