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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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