In 1918, in a rush to celebrate the first airmail flight, the Post Office department issued the 24-cent Curtiss Jenny stamp. Jeffrey Hayes Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum Director Allen Kane National Postal Museum William H. Joining Donahoe in dedicating the souvenir sheet were NASA Mission Operations and Data Analysis Program Executive Dr. Visit this link at the National Postal Museum to see examples of Postal Service innovations. Mail also flies on FedEx and UPS cargo aircraft. Today the Postal Service continues as the commercial aviation industry’s largest freight customer. Additionally to help commercial aviation get off the ground and to speed the mail, the Post Office Department helped develop navigational aids such as beacons and air-to-ground radio. Pan Am, TWA, American, United, Northwest and other airlines originated as air mail contractors before passenger service began.
By showing that air travel could be safe and useful, we helped create the entire American aviation industry, which went on to reshape the world.” Air mail turned out to be one of our most successful innovations. “It also symbolizes the Postal Service’s pioneering role in American history. “The stamp is much more than a misprint,” said Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe in dedicating the stamp. One stamp sold at auction in 2007 for $977,500. A sheet of 100 stamps bearing this error was sold to the public. And due to a printing error of the stamp created to commemorate this historic event, the biplane depicted on the 24-cent Curtiss Jenny airmail stamp was upside down. The pilot got lost, flew in the wrong direction and crashed. Two eerie occurrences took place surrounding the nation’s first airmail flight. The $12 Stamp Collecting: Inverted Jenny souvenir sheet is available nationwide today by visiting /stamps, calling 800-STAMP-24 (80) or by visiting Post Offices. history today - the 24-cent 1918 Curtiss Jenny Inverted airmail stamp. Gross Gallery at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum and promote October as National Stamp Collecting Month, the Postal Service dedicated a new $2 version of the most publicized stamp error in U.S. A high-resolution image of the stamp is available for media use only by emailing - In a move to celebrate the grand opening of the William H.
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