Display Status:
This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. It is either on loan or in storage.
Collection Item Summary:
Left side view, close-up, of middle section of Western Air Express Douglas M-2 on the ground. Man on horse beside the mail plane (Contract Air Mail Route #4) hands mail sack to pilot who is standing up in cockpit. Las Vegas, Nevada, 17 April 1926. (Probably a promotional photo.)
Collection Item Long Description:
Topic
- Aeronautics
- Airplanes
- Air mail service
- Cowboys
- Douglas Aircraft Company