U. S. Air Mail Time Line

Date	Event	Location
February 17, 1911	First Official Airmail:	Petaluma CA to Santa Rosa CA Pilot: Fred Wiseman
Sepember 23, 1911	1st Air Mail Pilot Sworn: Airplane Station No. 1 established by the United States Goverment during the International Aviation Meet of 1911	Garden City Estates, New York Pilot: Earl L. Ovington
Sepember 17, 1911 to November 5, 1911	1st Transcontiental Air Mail flight: Carried mail from one stop to the next stop (actual flying time was 84 hours)	Sheepshead, New York to Pacific Ocean Pilot: Calbraith Perry Rodgers
May 15, 1918	1st U.S. Government Airmail Service: Army pilots fly the mail	Washington DC-New York City NY- Philadelphia PA Pilots: Stephen Bonsal Howard P Culver Walter Miller Torrey H Webb George L Boyle James C Edgerton
September 8, 1920	1st Regular Transcontinental Service: Mail flies by day, transported by train at night	New York to San Francisco pilots:
	1st Night Flight