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DescriptionHelicopter air mail, 1947.jpg	English: Title: w: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.
Date	2 October 1947
Source	w: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
Author	Los Angeles Times
Permission (Reusing this file)	Note about non-renewal of copyright: [1]
Other versions	Other photos of LA Airways Sikorsky-S-51: 1951 photo, Sikorsky S-51, 1959

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