Air Mail, USA, Facilities; Navigation Beacons; Dayton Wright DH-4. [photograph]

favorite

Collection Item Summary:

View of U. S. Air Mail lighting beacon (5 million candlepower) facility located atop Sherman Hill (8,600 ft above sea level) between Cheyenne and Laramie, Wyoming, circa mid to late 1920s. One-half left front view from below of Dayton Wright DH-4 air mail biplane in banking flight at upper left.

Collection Item Long Description:

Topic

  • Aeronautics
  • Air mail service
  • Airplanes

Data Source

National Air and Space Museum Archives

Restrictions & Rights

Images are subject to Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum, Copyright and Image Use Restrictions. Usage requires prior written permission. Should you wish to use NASM still images in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Photographs, available at NASM's Permissions webpage: www.nasm.si.edu/research/arch/permissions.cfm

photographer

Unknown

See more items in

Date

Circa mid- to late-1920s

Repository Loc.

National Air and Space Museum, Archives Division, MRC 322, Washington, DC, 20560

Type

Photographs

Local number

NASM-00138313

Explore the collection

Related Topics