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Title: Los Angeles Airways helicopter taking off from the roof of Terminal Annex Post Office, first helicopter air-mail, 1947

Published caption: NEW MAIL SERVICE -- Los Angeles Airways helicopter shown landing on the roof of Terminal Annex Post office yesterday to inaugurate helicopter air-mail service, the first of its kind in the United States. Two flights daily are planned on this run with another to start Oct. 16.
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Los Angeles Times photographic archive, UCLA Library.
http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/dlib/lat/display.cfm?ms=uclalat_1429_b25_48087&searchType=subject&subjectID=215181
Photo ID: uclalat_1429_b25_48087
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October 2, 1947
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Los Angeles Times
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Other versions Other photos of LA Airways Sikorsky-S-51: 1951 photo, Sikorsky S-51, 1959

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