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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL JUNE 6, 2018 A7 'You've got airmail' Cottage Grove 200 Gateway Blvd. Cottage Grove, OR 97424 (541) 942-5400 Mon. - Sat. 8am - 9pm Sun. 9am - 8pm Ed & Kori Sowa Independent Owner-Operators facebook.com/CottageGroveGroceryOutlet SAVE 40-70% ON GROCERIES. BEAUTIFUL, HUH? SPRING Tune-Up We’ll make sure your system is running eff ectively and effi ciently. Call for details and an appointment today, and beat the spring rush! Only $99* Complete Heating & Cooling System Service Reasonable Rates • All Work Guaranteed Home Pride Painting and Repair LLCC Over 30 years of experience Schedule Now For Spring and Summer Interior and Exterior Painting Call us for a Free Quote! “We do small remodels, home repairs and decks! Serving Lane & North Douglas Counties 541-735-0089 ccb# 217560 6x6x8 Treated $9.99 LANDSCAPE AND BUILDING MATERIALS Open 7 days a week! 79149 N. River Road 541-942-4664 Commemorative flight marking 100th anniversary of U.S. Air Mail makes stops in Cottage Grove and Creswell COURTESY PHOTOS Ron Englund, current owner of the original Fleet 2 biplane once flown by U.S. Air Mail pilot Clyde Blakely, holds the 50th Anniversary Air Mail cover that was flown in the Fleet 2 during the 50th anniversary back in 1968. T he inaugural still available for purchase flight of the U.S. at OAHS for $5, can be Airmail service mailed directly between took place in now and early June. the foggy, early The following day, on morning hours on May 15, 1918, officially establish- May 17, the commemo- ing airmail service between rative light of the Stear- Washington. D.C., and New man Junior Speedmail, York, N.Y., by using Army CAM 8 also made their aircraft and pilots. In those earlier years, the Postal Ser- way through the Eugene vice had just begun using Airport, joining in the new transportation systems celebration of the historic like railroads and steam- occasion. boats, contracting directly The Junior Speedmails with owners of the lines to carry the mail. However, at flew the contract airmail the advent of airmail, com- routes from the late 1920s mercial airlines had yet to Ron Englund delivers more than 400 covers to Tammy Berry in be established — leaving no Cottage Grove on May 16, as part of the 100th anniversary of the up until WWII. The Cam 8 planes were existing airlines or routes to U.S. Airmail service. contract with. specially designed open As a result, Army Major hundred commemorative covers. So cockpit biplanes with Reuben H. Fleet was tasked with estab- it was only fitting that this past May more than 450 horsepower and the lishng the first U.S. Airmail route, linking 15, which commemorated 100 years capability to carry several hundred airmail service between Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and New York of airmail service, Blakely's Fleet 2 bi- pounds of mail over several hundred City. The army pilots chosen to make that plane, though no longer the oldest air- miles at a time. inaugural flight included lieutenants How- craft in Oregon, once again take to the The CAM 8 commemorative tour ard Culver, Torrey Webb, Walter Miller and skies as part of the celebration — this was flown by three Stearman Speed- Stephen Bonsal — all handpicked by Major time with current owner Ron Englund mails, which began at Gillespie Field in Fleet — along with lieutenants James Edg- erton and George Boyle, who were chosen piloting the historic run. San Diego, Calif., on May 12, making by U.S. Postal Service officials. The commemorative route went all of the historic CAM 8 route stops, Some 50 years later, a 1929 Fleet 2 bi- from the Crewsell Airport to the Or- including Eugene, before ending at plane hangared at Walker Airfield — at egon Aviation Historical Society Paine Field in Seattle, Wash., on Fri- the time then the oldest registered aircraft in the state of Oregon — was was chosen (OAHS) located at the Cottage Grove day, May 18. to fly a commemorative airmail route on airport. For more information about the May16, 1968, from Creswell to Eugene to celebrate 50 years of U.S. Airmail. Clyde Blakely was the owner and pilot on that route, carrying several On the flight, Englund carried more than 400 commemorative covers being sent as far away as Honolulu, Hawaii. The commomorative covers, which are flight or commemorative covers, con- tact the office for more information: info@oregonaviation.org. 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