Photograph of airmail pilot Ira Biffle

National Postal Museum

Object Details

Depicts
Ira Biffle
Description
Airmail pilot Ira Biffle posing in winter flight gear leaning on his airplane in Chicago, Illinois. Biffle served as an airmail pilot for the Post Office Department from 1918-1919 and 1923-1927. In 1922, while serving as a flying instructor in Lincoln, Nebraska, Biffle taught flying to a lanky young man named Charles Lindbergh.
Photographer: E. J. Pearson
Credit line
National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection Photographer: E. J. Pearson
c. 1927
Object number
A.2006-5
Type
Photographs
Medium
paper; photo-emulsion
Place
United States of America
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Record ID
npm_A.2006-5
Metadata Usage (text)
Not determined
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm82f0e80d3-85cc-4c5c-b088-22970a5dab6c
Photo of a man in a long coat with a fur collar leaning on the wheel of an airplane
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